Annual Events

Upcoming Events

Reunion 2023

Alumni Reunions

Each fall, Iowa Law alumni gather in Iowa City to reconnect and celebrate. There are opportunities to visit classrooms, talk to our faculty, and tour our facilities and always a chance to tailgate and take in some Hawkeye football. Whether you're five years out or 65 years, we hope you'll come back to visit.

A group photo of all those in attendance at Back to Iowa in Chicago.

Back to Iowa

Back to Iowa (BTI) began as an effort between African American alumni, BLSA and the College of Law to provide real-life information to Iowa Law students about the practice of law and the legal job market. 

Levitt Lecture

Continuing Legal Education

Iowa Law provides a number continuing legal education (CLE) opportunities for alumni and friends. CLE programming takes place in both the fall and spring semesters.

The 2025 alumni award winners, posing for a photo with Todd Pettys

Annual Alumni Awards

Iowa Law hosts an alumni awards program to recognize law alumni who have made significant achievements in their careers and in their service to the College of Law. Awards are presented annually in four different categories: Emerging Leader, Alumni Achievement, Alumni Service and the Iowa Law Review Alumni Achievement award. 

Cookout

Pregame Cookouts

Pregame cookouts are hosted each fall at the Boyd Law Building, thanks to our generous sponsors. Join us two hours prior to kick-off to meet up with alumni, faculty, and staff. We'll have the usual fare including cheesy potatoes! If you are interested in learning more about sponsoring a cookout, contact us.

Van Jones, American News Commentator and Author, speaking at the Levitt Lecture in 2019

Levitt Lecture Series

Levitt Lectures provide an annual opportunity for the College of Law to bring distinguished speakers from across the United States and around the globe to present major lectures of interest, not only to the legal community, but also to leaders in all walks of life in the state and region.

Upcoming Events

The Private Sector and the Planet: Zoe Beck, VP of Sustainability at HCA Healthcare promotional image

The Private Sector and the Planet: Zoe Beck, VP of Sustainability at HCA Healthcare

Tuesday, March 24, 2026 12:10pm to 1:10pm
Boyd Law Building

Join the Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative, Vanderbilt Law School’s Private Climate Governance Lab, and the Tippie Social Impact Community for The Private Sector and the Planet speaker series.

We are excited to welcome Zoe Beck, VP of Sustainability at HCA Healthcare, for the third installment of the Private Sector and the Planet speaker series on Tuesday, March 24, at 12:10 p.m. Her talk is called "Leading Sustainability in Practice: Corporate Responses to Climate Risk."

As health care systems...

Winifred Tate | Art After the Unspeakable: Reflections on Works by Doris Salcedo and Jeremy Frey promotional image

Winifred Tate | Art After the Unspeakable: Reflections on Works by Doris Salcedo and Jeremy Frey

Tuesday, March 24, 2026 2:30pm to 4:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art

This talk examines mourning and worldmaking through community action and art in the wake of violence, dispossession, and collective loss. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with communities in southern Colombia and rural Maine, Tate considers the intersections, possibilities and limitations of rights activism and art through an exploration of the visual repertoires and material practices of Colombian sculptor Doris Salcedo and Passamaquoddy artist Jeremy Frey. This program is free and open to all...

One Day for Iowa | The University of Iowa's Annual Giving Day promotional image

One Day for Iowa | The University of Iowa's Annual Giving Day

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 (all day)
Virtual

One Day for Iowa returns on Wednesday, March 25, marking 10 years of Hawkeyes coming together to support what matters most at the University of Iowa.

Give now: https://1dayforiowa.org/3N96oqb

Our 24-hour online giving day is a chance for alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends to make an impact — supporting scholarships, research, health care, the arts, student experiences, and more. With special matching and unlocking opportunities throughout the day, every gift has the power to go further...

Cultivating Rurality: Building Community around Rural Research — 2025–26 Obermann Symposium promotional image

Cultivating Rurality: Building Community around Rural Research — 2025–26 Obermann Symposium

Thursday, March 26 to Friday, March 27, 2026 (all day)
Iowa City Public Library

Directed by Brian R. Farrell, Daria Fisher Page, and Ryan T. Sakoda (UI College of Law), "Cultivating Rurality: Building Community around Rural Research" will bring together scholars, community leaders from across the U.S., and professionals who work with rural populations and in rural spaces. During the symposium, attendees will be invited to collaborate in theorizing rurality, share how it impacts their work, examine how rurality is represented and celebrated, and begin to discuss challenges...

Cultivating Rurality: Building Community around Rural Research — 2025–26 Obermann Symposium promotional image

Cultivating Rurality: Building Community around Rural Research — 2025–26 Obermann Symposium

Friday, March 27, 2026 (all day)
Iowa City Public Library

Directed by Brian R. Farrell, Daria Fisher Page, and Ryan T. Sakoda (UI College of Law), "Cultivating Rurality: Building Community around Rural Research" will bring together scholars, community leaders from across the U.S., and professionals who work with rural populations and in rural spaces. During the symposium, attendees will be invited to collaborate in theorizing rurality, share how it impacts their work, examine how rurality is represented and celebrated, and begin to discuss challenges...

Screening and talk by Andrew Freer of Go Fourth Media films, "2000 Metres to Andriivka"  promotional image

Screening and talk by Andrew Freer of Go Fourth Media films, "2000 Metres to Andriivka"

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 6:30pm to 8:30pm
FilmScene (Chauncey)

A Community Collaborations Event

Presented in partnership with the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights, with a portion of ticket proceeds going to The Center to Protect Journalists

Pre-screening there will be short films produced by Go Forth Media with filmmaker Andrew Freer in conversation

Please join us for a community collaboration with FilmScene on April 1 at 6:30 p.m. Andrew Freer, founder of Chicago based Go Fourth Media, will share some of the organization's recent documentary work...

The Social Impact of AI Roundtable Discussion promotional image

The Social Impact of AI Roundtable Discussion

Friday, April 3, 2026 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Pappajohn Business Building
The Tippie College of Business Social Impact Community and Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative are hosting a workshop connecting researchers and professionals interested in exploring one of today’s most urgent questions: What is the social impact of artificial intelligence—and how can we shape it for good?

Show Me Your Talent!

Friday, April 3, 2026 5:30pm to 7:30pm
Boyd Law Building

Join us for Show Me Your Talent! — A talent and art showcase hosted by Iowa Law’s Collegiate Community Committee (CCC).

Whether you’re performing, displaying art, or simply coming to support your classmates, faculty, and staff, this event is about celebrating creativity, connection, and balance in law school.

Come enjoy an evening of music, art, poetry, comedy, and more as members of the Iowa Law community showcase their hidden (or not-so-hidden) talents. All are welcome!

If you are interested in...

Protecting Water, Protecting Community: Short Films & Dialogue on Indigenous Land and Water Defense promotional image

Protecting Water, Protecting Community: Short Films & Dialogue on Indigenous Land and Water Defense

Thursday, April 9, 2026 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Iowa Memorial Union (IMU)

Join us for an evening of short films and community conversation exploring movements to protect water, land, and community.

The program will feature a curated selection of short films highlighting water protection movements in the Midwest, and beyond. Following the screenings, Dakota elder and historian Tim Mentz Sr. and Sikowis Nobiss, Cree-Saulteaux of the George Gordon First Nation in Saskatchewan and the founder and executive director of the Great Plains Action Society, will participate in a...

Cindy Cohn in conversation with Mihailis Diamantis and Rishab Nithyanand - "Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance." promotional image

Cindy Cohn in conversation with Mihailis Diamantis and Rishab Nithyanand - "Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance."

Friday, April 10, 2026 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Cindy Cohn will read from her new book, Privacy's Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance, and will be joined in conversation by University of Iowa professors Mihailis Diamantis and Rishab Nithyanand.
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