Texas A&M Law’s Faculty Speaker Series seeks to partner with, highlight, and build on the work of ongoing programming at the law school. The 2017-18 schedule is pasted below.
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Texas A&M hosts 12th annual COSELL
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On September 14-16, Texas A&M Law hosted the 12th Annual Colloquium on Scholarship in Employment and Labor Law. Under the leadership of Michael Green, more than 40 professors and fellows from around the country presented papers-in-progress on workplace law topics. READ MORE
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State's highest criminal court visits campus
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On September 27, thanks to the efforts of Neil Sobol, the law school proudly welcomed to campus the State’s highest criminal court, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. The Court heard oral argument in two cases before a capacity crowd of faculty, students, and guests. READ MORE
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CLIP joins State Bar, USPTO in
offering Intellectual Property Pro Bono Workshop
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On September 30, the law school’s Center for Law and Intellectual Property, under the direction of Peter Yu, hosted the Intellectual Property Workshop for North Texas Inventors and Entrepreneurs in collaboration with the Texas Regional Office of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Intellectual Property Law Section of the State Bar of Texas. The workshop aimed to provide practical advice to inventors and entrepreneurs in the North Texas community. READ MORE
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Conference examines FCPA Statute
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On October 12, in recognition of the 40-year anniversary of Congress’s passing the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Peter Reilly convened practitioners and academics for a conference examining the legal and policy issues relevant to the current enforcement and compliance landscape. READ MORE
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Clinic faculty, students assist immigrants
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When Sara Beltran-Hernandez, a Salvadoran asylum seeker, collapsed in immigration detention and was hospitalized with a brain tumor last spring, Fatma Marouf and her students in Texas A&M Law’s Immigrant Rights Clinic sprang into action. Collaborating with Amnesty International, which drew national media attention to the case, the Clinic filed a writ of habeas corpus and a bond motion to get Ms. Beltran-Hernandez released from detention. READ MORE
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Residency Externship Program in Public Policy
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The Texas A&M Residency Externship Program in Public Policy (REP-PP), directed by Lisa Rich, gives law students the opportunity to put their legal skills and Aggie values to work in leading governmental and public sector positions in Austin, Texas, and Washington, D.C. In addition to their placements within committee and personal offices of the U.S. House and Senate, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Texas legislature, and Texas advocacy and regulatory bodies, REP-PP students explore policymaking through a one-of-a-kind seminar led by a policy expert in their host cities. READ MORE
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3L Megan Reed has secured a clerkship in Texas’s highest court, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, with Judge David Newell.
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3L Henrik Strand has agreed to clerk for Justice John Phillip Devine of the Texas Supreme Court.
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