Past Symposia
The Law Review has a proud history of special symposium issues on a broad range of important topics. Recent symposium issues have included:
2025 Symposium on the Power of State Constitutional Rights
2024 Symposium on Racial Justice After SFFA v. Harvard
2023 Symposium on Data Justice
2022 Symposium on Fraud and the Erosion of Trust
2021 Symposium on Reimagining Property in the Era of Inequality
2021 Festschrift: Celebrating Marshall S. Shapo
2020 Symposium on the Second Amendment’s Next Chapter
2020 In Memoriam: Justice John Paul Stevens
2019 NULRO Symposium on Anita Bernstein’s The Common Law Inside the Female Body
2019 Symposium on Solitary Confinement
2017 Symposium on McCleskey v. Kemp
2016 Symposium on Democratizing Criminal Law
2016 NULRO Symposium on Bridges II: The Law–STEM Alliance & Next Generation Innovation
2015 Symposium on Free Speech Foundations
2014 Symposium on Institutional Design
2013 Symposium on the Centennial of the Income Tax
2012 Symposium in Honor of Martin H. Redish
2011 Symposium in Honor of Justice John Paul Stevens
2010 Symposium on Political Science and the Law
2009 Symposium on Maturing Internet Studies
2008 Symposium on Original Ideas on Originalism
2007 Symposium on Ordering State-Federal Relations Through Federal Preemption Doctrine
2006 Symposium on Censorship and Institutional Review Boards
2005 Symposium on Celebrating 100 Years of Legal Scholarship: The First Century
2004 Symposium on the Rehnquist Court
2003 Symposium on Personal Jurisdiction in the Internet Age
2002 Symposium on Empirical Legal Realism: A New Social Scientific Assessment of Law and Human Behavior
2001 Symposium on Van Gorkom and the Corporate Board: Problem, Solution, or Placebo?
2000 Symposium on the Counter-Majoritarian Difficulty
1999 Symposium in honor of Ian R. MacNeil on Relational Contract Theory: Unanswered Questions
1998 Symposium on Free Speech and Economic Power
1997 Symposium on Throwing Away the Key: Social and Legal Responses to Child Molesters
1996 Symposium on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Ten Years Later
1995 Symposium on Grant Gilmore’s The Death of Contract
1993 Symposium on One Hundred Years of Judicial Review: The Thayer Centennial
1992 Symposium on Can Feminists Use the Law to Effect Social Change in the 1990s?
1990 Symposium on the Substance and Enforcement of Securities Fraud Provisions
1989 Symposium on Confirmation Controversy: The Selection of a Supreme Court Justice
1988 Symposium on Law and Social Theory
1986 Symposium on Roberto Unger’s Politics: A Work in Constructive Social Theory
1984 Faculty Symposium in Commemoration of the Arthur J. Rubloff Building
1983 Symposium on Freedom of Expression: Theoretical Perspectives
1979 Symposium on State Courts in the 1980s and Beyond
1976 Symposium on the Federal Rules of Evidence
1972 Symposium on Securities and Exchange Commission Rule 44