Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights

01/31/2022

Our last panel, but certainly not our least! Join us on Thursday to hear from Claire Bow, Nicholas Guillory from Lambda Legal Dallas, Adriana Perez from of Texas, and Ricardo Martinez from Equality Texas about HB 25 and its impacts on the transgender community. Registration ends TONIGHT! https://bit.ly/TJCLCR2022

01/31/2022

Looking forward to hearing from this amazing line up? So are we! Register by TONIGHT to hear from Stephanie Gomez from Common Cause Texas, Nina Perales from Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Stephanie Swanson from League of Women Voters of Texas on Thursday. We are also so appreciative to have Grace Chimene moderating this panel! Register at: https://bit.ly/TJCLCR2022

01/31/2022

We are so excited to have Dr. Ghazaleh Moayedi, Adriana Piñon from ACLU of Texas, Anna Rupani from Fund Texas Choice, and Zaena Zamora from Frontera Fund on our reproductive rights panel on Thursday! Reminder: registration ends TONIGHT!

https://bit.ly/TJCLCR2022

06/15/2020

The Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights stands with the Black Lives Matter movement. We stand in solidarity with those fighting for Black liberation and justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Mike Ramos, Javier Ambler, Oluwatoyin Salau, Robert Fuller, Malcom Harsch, and countless others who have been murdered, brutalized, and denied justice by the white supremacist state.

We call on the Texas Law Review and other journals at Texas Law to join us in reopening and modifying their Spring 2020 write-ons. We call on administrators at Texas Law to reject the presence of UTPD in the law school.

03/16/2020

The Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights condemns the anti-LGBTQ+ articles published in the Texas Review of Law & Politics's Fall 2019 issue. We fully support our fellow students in OUTLaw and members of the LGBTQ+ community who were targeted by these articles.

TJCLCR's official statement on the recently published TROLP Fall 2019 issue:

10/03/2019

TJCLCR has officially launched a blog! Check out our first post by our Technical Editor Kevin Trahan regarding the Amber Guyger trial held in Dallas this past week.

http://sites.utexas.edu/tjclcr/2019/10/03/amber-guyger-botham-jean-police-prison-abolition/

The Problems with Using the Criminal Legal System to Fight the Criminal Legal System Posted on October 3, 2019 by Kevin Trahan Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was convicted of murder on Tuesday, just over a year after shooting and killing a 26-year-old black man named Botham Jean sitting i...

05/07/2019

TJCLCR mugs & coffee day. Thanks to the editors this year!

05/05/2019

Board leadership's hand-off brunch! Volume 25 incoming.

05/01/2019

Congratulations to clackers who today received awards for their pro bono service and/or for their dedication within the justice center. Among them were Josh Brody (Justice Center Graduating Student and 3L Pro Bono Beacon), Marissa Balonon-Rosen (Justice Center Graduating Student and Hildy's Cutback Award Winner), Ghada Ghannam (2L Pro Bono Beacon), Catherine Morris (2L Pro Bono Beacon), and Nicolas Sawyer (1L Pro Bono Beacon). Way to represent, y'all!

04/03/2019

Thanks to the clackers who came out tonight! Just some of those came are in the photo below. Thanks to Laura Moedano for putting this together! Our editors are the best.

03/06/2019

Here are more photos from Access Issues Here in Austin | 2019 Conf. on Civil Lib. & Rights! Photo credit to staff editor Catherine Morris. Thanks to panelists, panel moderators, questioners, and question moderators.

03/06/2019

Could other proposed census questions deter completion of the 2020 census? Proposed questions go beyond only the infamous citizenship question. There are also more specific questions regarding national origin for most or all census takers (including some checkboxes for APAC and latinx people, but solely a freeform field for black and white people). In addition, there are questions distinguishing between opposite and same-sex couples and partnerships, without regard to gender identity.

For the national head count, all U.S. households will encounter the question: "Is this person a citizen of the United States?"

03/05/2019

Attention: deadline approaching for the below fellowships!

03/01/2019

Thanks to Josh Brody as well as Kate Moody and Laura Moedano for organizing a fantastic conference. Hope our attendees enjoyed Access Issues Here in Austin | 2019 Conf. on Civil Lib. & Rights! More photos to come!

02/21/2019

Student Awards   2018 Graduating Student Award recipients (l-r) Elizabeth Esser-Stuart, Sarah Mae Jennings, Diego Cervantes, Marissa Latta, Reema Ali, Andrias Jones, and Luis Ortiz.The Justice Center fosters engagement in public interest law, public service, and pro bono activities by honoring stud...

02/19/2019

We hope to see everyone at today's talk with John Po***ck, "The Right to Counsel in Eviction Cases: Successes and the Potential in Texas.”

The event will begin at 11:45am in the Eidman Courtroom, with pizza available at 12:45.

See you there!

02/19/2019

Heads up, Texas law students interested in working in public criminal law: you can get experiential learning class credit by working at the Federal Public Defender or U.S Attorney's office here in Austin. App info for former here (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1XJGKFKMEz2cDUxYTVyVUQyNDZ6V1Z2V05TQ0w2NE5abi1z/view?usp=drivesdk) and latter here (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1XJGKFKMEz2UENCV1lDcFI5QWtaX0tLYWpUNnFnMHgxV2JZ/view?usp=drivesdk).