Symposia

Historically, the Review has participated in an annual symposium sponsored by the Institute of Bill of Rights Law.  These symposia bring together prominent scholars from across the nation.  Recent symposia topics include constitution drafting in post-conflict states, professional ethics, and intellectual property.  The papers submitted for the Boundaries of Intellectual Property Symposium were published in Volume 51, Issue 2 and are available in the Table of Contents.

On February 25-26, 2011, the Review and the Institute of Bill of Rights Law will host a Symposium dedicated to “Constitutional Transformations: The State, the Citizen, and the Changing Role of Government.”  The Symposium will gather leading constitutional scholars to discuss whether current economic, political, and social conditions represent a transformative constitutional moment, and, if so, what implications this may have for constitutional practice, theory, and understanding.

The participants will address a variety of constitutional issues, including declining state participation in certain critical public functions, increasing state ownership of private assets, the constitutional implications of new federal entitlement programs and mandates, the changing transmission of international norms across boundaries, the changing role of states in the federal system, the operation of the surveillance state, the conception of “citizenship” in a globalized world, the meaning and enforcement of equality, and the role of originalism and popular constitutionalism during periods of constitutional change.

Papers submitted at the Symposium will be published in Volume 53, Issue 2 of the Review.