Events Calendar

Immigration and Race: Did the 2012 Election Change Anything?
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Gerlinger Lounge
Contact: Kelsey Provo • Email

Public Affairs Speaker Series featuring Karthick Ramakrishnan.
Sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center and UO Department of Political Science.

Place and Belonging: Policing Immigrant Lives at the State and Local Scales
2:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Ford Alumni Center, Giustina Ballroom
Contact: Kelsey Provo • Email

Third event in the Wayne Morse Center Migration Project's 2012-13 speaker series "The Borders Within: Immigrants, Race, and the Politics of Surveillance and Enforcement in the United States." We will examine emerging geographies of policing immigrant and "ethnic" lives in the contemporary United States, exploring how these processes are shaped by race, class and broader geopolitical narratives, as well as how these policing efforts are shaping immigrant lives and experiences.

ACLU's Know Your Rights: When Interacting With Law Enforcement
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Room 242
Contact: Coleman Boyer • Email

Co-sponsored by the undergraduate UO Mock Trial Team and the local ACLU Lane County Chapter Board this event seeks to educate the public about their rights when interacting with law enforcement. The structure of the event will begin with a brief presentation followed by panel discussion involving recent city legislation regarding house parties and end with a Q&A session.

Bar Exam Bootcamp
9:30 am - 4:00 pm
Room 141
Contact: Liz Tippett • Email

Professors Tippett and Frost will be leading a bar exam bootcamp for students and alumni on May 15 from 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM. The morning will include an overall plan of attack for studying, and strategies for the multi-state. 1:00 - 2:30 will be devoted to strategies for responding to essay questions (all state bars), and 2:30 - 4:00 will be devoted to study strategies for the performance test (California and Oregon). Pizza, drinks and snacks provided!

No sign up necessary.

Admitted Student Visiting Day 2.0
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Knight Law Center
Contact: Heather Chaney • Email
Website

Join in an inspiring day at Oregon Law. Oregon Court of Appeals Judge David Schuman '84 will address the need for new lawyers in our society. Our faculty will discuss important contemporary legal issues and how you will be engaged in finding creative solutions. Visit our state and federal courthouses, or join in a Willamette River walk about with national water law expert Associate Dean Adell Amos '98, or view the UO campus from a law student perspective.

To RSVP, email admissions@law.uoregon.edu

Know Your Rights Panel
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
186 Knight Law Center
Contact: Anita Clarke • Email

Informative panel discussion about current and changing LBTQ rights.

Participating panelists: Attorney Diane Depaolis, Attorney Jennifer Middleton, Professor of Law Margie Paris, Attorney Cassandra Skinner, and the Honorable Justice Martha Walters.

Please feel free to invite any friends in the community that may be interested.

This event is co-sponsored by OUTLaws and the Pride Foundation.

Oregon Law Commencement 2013
All Day
Hult Center for the Performing Arts and Knight Law Center
Contact: Nicole Commissiong • Email
Website

Commencement Speaker: Chief Justice Shirley S. Abrahamson, Wisconsin Supreme Court

Meritorious Service Award honoree: Judge David Schuman '84, Oregon Court of Appeals

Commencement Marshall: James Mooney, Professor Emeritus

J.D. Class Speaker: Adam Schulz

3L Class Representatives: Anna Friedhoff and Ariel Nelson

LL.M. Class Speaker: Noni Austin

We are pleased to present the Class of 2013. We honor our mission of education and service and hope you will join us in that celebration. There is no charge for admission and the event is general seating.

Oregon Law in Portland Reception
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
BridgePort BrewPub, Heritage Room, 1313 NW Marshall Street, Portland, Oregon
Contact: Rachel Kahn • Email

Alumni Affairs and Career Center reception for Portland-area Oregon Law alumni. Space is limited, RSVP required.

Summer Institute in American Philosophy
All Day
184
Contact: Connie Tapp • Email

Programming Languages Summerschool
All Day
110 Law Center
Contact: Jim Allen • Email
Website

International Conference for Computer Science graduate students, professors and professionals about programming language formal methods in security. Lectures are open to the public on a space-available basis. Material is accessible to students who have taken at least a senior-level undergraduate course in programming language theory.