Announcements

Celebrate at the 8th Annual Blues and BBQ Supper

May 6, 2013

Join us to celebrate the graduating class of 2013 at the 8th Annual Blues and BBQ Supper on Thursday, May 9, from 5-7 p.m. on the law school patio. This celebration is free for 3Ls and their families, and will feature live music and supper from Buddy’s BBQ. Join your classmates, family, friends, Dean Blaze, the faculty [...]

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2013 Hooding set for May 10

May 6, 2013

The Class of 2013 will graduate on May 10 at 5 p.m. in Thompson Boling Arena. Senator Lamar Alexander will be the keynote speaker. Hooding will feature an honorary degree presentation to John L. Seigenthaler. Other graduation highlights include Nik Vaselopulos, who will provide the student address, and a vocal presentation by Valeria Gomez, accompanied [...]

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3L students can begin picking up caps and gowns today

May 6, 2013

3L Students attending hooding can begin picking up caps and gowns starting Monday, May 6 in rooms 223 and 224 (it’s a double room) in the University Center, not at the Graduation Counter. They had too many items to fit into the bookstore at the counters, so they have moved everything upstairs.

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Submit your graduation photos to UT Law

May 6, 2013

The UT College of Law will once again be collecting graduation photos for an online slideshow to be published the week after hooding. We want pictures of your journey! From trying to get those gown collars on straight to group shots with the proud grandparents and (appropriate) photos of the after graduation celebrations, send us [...]

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Baker Lecture on Energy and Environment set for April 24 with Bill Richardson

May 2, 2013

Join us on Wednesday April 24, for the Baker Distinguished Lecture on Energy and the Environment, which serves to close the 2012-13 academic year’s Baker Center Forum on Energy and Environment. The lecture will take place at 6 p.m. in the Toyota Auditorium in the Baker Center and is free and open to the public. Former [...]

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Lincoln’s Lessons for Lawyers set for April 18

April 15, 2013
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disABILITY Resource Center seeks a Disability Advocate

April 15, 2013

Attention 2Ls and 3L Law Students: The disABILITY Resource Center seeks a Disability Advocate beginning immediately.  The position is paid, part-time, approximately 10 hours a week, is supervised by the Executive Director and with Alex Long, Professor of Law, acting as resource.   Applicants must have completed their first year of coursework at UT College of [...]

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Third Annual Enlace event set for Tuesday, April 16

April 15, 2013
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Novak auction set for Thursday, April 18

April 15, 2013

The Student Bar Association will be hosting its annual Allen Novak Auction on Thursday, April 18, at noon on the front patio of the law school. All students, faculty and staff are invited to attend and to bid on some wonderful items donated by local businesses and faculty members. Funds raised by the auction go to [...]

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Sex Week event features law faculty and alumna

April 8, 2013

Professors Joan Heminway and Michael Higdon and College of Law alumna Celeste Herbert are speaking on Sex, Gender and The Law as part of next week’s inaugural Sex Week program on UT’s Knoxville campus. The event is scheduled for Wednesday, April 10 at 5:30 p.m. in room 27 of the Alumni Memorial Building. The description for the event [...]

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Upcoming CLE program: Navigating the Complexities of Our Melting Pot: How Immigration Affects Legal Representation

April 8, 2013

The Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy, the Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice, and the Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution at the UT College of Law are presenting a full day CLE program that will focus on how to deal with the mingling of state and federal law in the immigration [...]

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Pauline Oliva speaks at Baker Center and Environmental Form on April 11th

April 8, 2013

Join us for the next Baker Center Energy and Environmental Forum, which will take place on Thursday, April 11t, at 3.30 p.m. in Min Kao 404. (The forum will not be held in the Toyota Auditorium in the Baker Center due to a scheduling conflict). Paulina Oliva, assistant professor of economics at the University of California, [...]

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UT Law hosts MLBPA General Counsel Dave Prouty on April 15th

April 8, 2013

Have you ever wondered what really happens behind the scenes when your favorite professional sports leagues are negotiating deals? Who is to thank or blame for the many public battles such as the National Football League (NFL), National Hockey League (NHL) and National Basketball Association (NBA) lockouts or the recent football referees fiasco? The Sports [...]

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Rising 3Ls can pre-register for fall clinics

April 2, 2013

You can now pre-register for clinic! Rising 3Ls can now pre-register for any of our six clinics offered this fall:  Advocacy Clinic (open to all students who have taken Evidence), Business Clinic, Immigration Clinic, Innocence and Wrongful Convictions Clinic, Not-For-Profits Clinic and Wills Clinic. To pre-register you will need to submit the registration form by [...]

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Summer research assistant needed

April 2, 2013

A research assistant is needed to work approximately 40 hours per week during the summer. Research will be in the area of immigration and asylum law. Assistant will have the opportunity to help out with clinic immigration cases over the summer. Students interested in the position should send a resume, current transcript and writing sample [...]

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Lewis R. Hagood Labor and Employment Writing Award deadline set for May 15

April 2, 2013

The Lewis R. Hagood Labor and Employment Writing Award will be presented to a student who, as a second- or third-year, authored the best paper written in the area of labor and employment law. Faculty members who write or teach in the area of labor and employment law will identify papers for consideration and evaluate [...]

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CJ Lewis wins Sixth Annual Advocacy Idol competition

March 18, 2013

Eighteen first-year UT law students participated in the Sixth Annual Advocacy Idol Competition on March 13. With the help of their second- and third-year law student coaches, the Idol participants prepared a seven-minute opening statement in the second-degree murder case of State of Rockytop v. Alto Ramey. Panels of judges from various courts across Tennessee, as well as [...]

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Sixth annual 1L Advocacy Idol Competition

March 13, 2013

The Sixth Annual 1L Advocacy Idol competition will be held today beginning at 5 p.m. First-year law students, coached by second- and third-year students, will compete by presenting five-minute opening statements to a panel of judges and lawyers. After preliminary rounds, six finalists will be chosen, and from these finalists, the entire panel of judges [...]

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Baker Center and TLR present “A Jeffersonian Challenge” on March 14

March 13, 2013

The Tennessee Law Review and the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy is presenting “A Jeffersonian Challenge: The Biggest Environmental Law Case in Twentieth Century Tennessee. . . and Where Was the Press? The Little Endangered Snail Darter versus TVA’s Tellico Dam” on Thursday, March 14. Join us for a presentation, panel discussion and reception. The program starts  in the Howard H. [...]

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Graduate Student Senate Town Hall on March 14

March 13, 2013

There is a Graduate Student Senate Town Hall on Thursday, March 14 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the College of Law, room 237. All graduate students are invited to discuss issues and ideas within the graduate community and talk to members of the administration with distinguished guests: Carolyn Hodges, Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School [...]

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