AMBASSADOR RON KIRK IS
2014 HEMPHILL DINNER SPEAKER
Ambassador Ron Kirk, former U.S. Trade Representative in the Obama Administration, will give the keynote address at this year's John Hemphill Dinner.
As a member of President Obama’s Cabinet from 2009 to 2013, Ambassador Kirk was the
President’s principal trade advisor, negotiator, and spokesperson on trade issues. Prior to that, he served in various state and local government positions, including Texas
Secretary of State and Mayor of Dallas.
Since leaving his Cabinet post last year, Ambassador Kirk has served as Senior of Counsel in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher's Dallas and Washington, D.C. offices.
The Hemphill Dinner, which is the Society's major fundraising event, is scheduled for Friday, June 6, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Austin.
To purchase tickets, go to the link below or
contact the Society's office at tschs@sbcglobal.net, 512/481-1840.
http://www.texascourthistory.org/tschs/hemphill-dinner-registration-form/
Briefing Attorneys Breakfast
The annual breakfast for briefing attorneys will be held on Saturday morning, June 7, at the UT Austin Alumni Center. To buy tickets, visit
http://www.texascourthistory.org/tschs/briefing-attorney-breakfast-registration/
BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT
Released in January 2014
Common Law Judge:
Selected Writings of Chief Justice Jack Pope of Texas
Edited by Marilyn P. Duncan
Chief Justice Jack Pope is widely acknowledged in the legal community as one of the Texas judiciary’s brightest stars. During his 38 years on the bench he not only authored more than one thousand opinions, many of them landmark cases, but he also led the charge to bring about fundamental reforms in the judicial system.
CJ Pope’s articles, lectures, and essays on the common law and the
art and science of judicial decision-making—many of them unpublished until now—are gems of legal writing. This book, which includes the best of those writings as well as excerpts from 10 of his landmark Civil Appeals Court and Supreme Court opinions, is a must-read for Texas attorneys and judges as well as others interested in the evolution of Texas law.
The book is available to TSCHS members at a special discounted
price of $20, including sales tax.
Order here!
Also available:
The Texas Supreme Court:
A Narrative History, 1836-1986
by James L. Haley
In the first book-length history of the Texas Supreme Court in almost 100 years, award-winning author James L. Haley tells the story of the Court from its Republic frontier through the volatile decades of the 20th century. The book, published by the University of Texas Press in 2013, is the premier volume
in the Scoiety-sponsored Texas Legal Studies Series.
Order now!
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Journal of the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society
Vol. 3, no. 3, Spring 2014
Published in March, this issue of
the Society's e-journal includes an
article on Republic Judge R.E.B. Baylor by former Chief Justice Tom Phillips and Professor Jim Paulsen; the second half of Bill Chriss’s oral history interview with Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson; an article by Bill Ogden on his great grandfather Judge Wesley Ogden’s exile during the Civil War; and an article by Colbert N. Coldwell on his great grandfather Colbert Coldwell’s Supreme Court service during Reconstruction.
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