Upcoming events

IPLS Speaker Event: Matt Kuykendall, Director of Brand Intellectual Property at Sony Interactive Entertainment

Monday, March 9, 2026 12:30pm to 1:45pm
Boyd Law Building

The Intellectual Property Law Society is hosting an in-person speaker event with Matt Kuykendall. Matt is the current Director of Brand Intellectual Property at Sony Interactive Entertainment, the company behind PlayStation. Matt has also previously served as the Director of Global Trademarks and as Senior Corporate Counsel. Matt has worked across and oversees several areas of intellectual property law, both at Sony and Wilson Sonsini. We invite the law school community to come to this event and...

Data Centers in Iowa: Perspectives from Community, Government, and Research promotional image

Data Centers in Iowa: Perspectives from Community, Government, and Research

Monday, March 9, 2026 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building
This panel will offer a high-level overview of how community, government, and industry considerations shape data center development in Iowa and the broader Midwest.
MLK Day Lecture - "The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Under Threat at the University Lectern" with Antonio Ingram promotional image

MLK Day Lecture - "The Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Under Threat at the University Lectern" with Antonio Ingram

Monday, March 9, 2026 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Boyd Law Building

Antonio Lavalle Ingram II serves as Senior Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund where he works on educational equity cases. Mr. Ingram serves as lead counsel in Simon et al v. Ivey et al., challenging Alabama’s SB 129, prohibiting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in public colleges and universities. Mr. Ingram also Co-authored a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief in 303 Creative v. Elenis where he opposed intersectional anti-Black and anti-LGBTQIA+ public accommodations discrimination. In...

Across the Aisle - Does America Need More Babies?

Tuesday, March 10, 2026 12:40pm to 2:00pm
Boyd Law Building

Across the Aisle is hosting an all-school discussion on Declining Birth Rates: Should America Have More Babies? Brought to you by the Collegiate Community Committee, our goal is to bridge division by bringing people with different perspectives on important social and political issues into conversation with each other. This event will focus on the problem of declining birth rates in developed countries, whether government policies encouraging people to have children amount to reproductive...

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Across the Aisle

Across the Aisle is a regular event series about learning to disagree while remaining friends, colleagues, classmates, and fellow citizens. At our events, small groups of participants with different views have curated discussions about pre-selected, hot button topics of social and political significance. 

Alumni Events

Learn more about annual events for College of Law alumni, including CLE opportunities, alumni reunions, the Alumni Awards Ceremony, and more.

Levitt Lecture Series

Levitt Lectures provide an annual opportunity for the College of Law to bring distinguished speakers from around the globe to present major lectures of interest.