Symposia

2023 Symposium: Understanding and Responding to Mass Incarceration

Jeffrey Bellin, William & Mary Law School
Bennett Capers, Fordham University School of Law
Kami Chavis, William & Mary Law School
Vincent Chiao, University of Richmond School of Law
Andrew Grinrod, Federal Public Defender, Eastern District of Virginia
Brandon Hasbrouck, Washington & Lee University School of Law
Mark Herring, former Attorney General of Virginia
Carissa Hessick, University of North Carolina School of Law
Shon Hopwood, Georgetown University Law Center
Corinna Lain, University of Richmond School of Law
Brianna Nofil, College of William & Mary
Seth Stoughton, University of South Carolina School of Law
Nia Vidal, Federal Public Defender, Eastern District of Virginia

The Symposium took place on Friday, February 24 and Saturday, February 25, 2023. Papers submitted as part of the Symposium will be published in Volume 65 of the Law Review.

2022 Symposium: Cryptocurrency

Hilary Allen, American University Washington College of Law
Shawn Bayern, Florida State University College of Law
Eric Chason, William & Mary Law School
Joshua Fairfield, Washington & Lee School of Law
James Grimmelman, Cornell Law School
Juliet Moringiello, Widner University Commonwealth Law School
Christopher Odinet, University of Iowa College of Law
Carla Reyes. Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
Kevin Werbach, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School
Jason Windawi, Princeton University
Del Wright, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law

The Symposium took place on Friday, February 11 and Saturday, February 12, 2022. Papers submitted as part of the Symposium were published in Volume 64 of the Law Review.

2021 Symposium: Imagining the Future of Law and Neuroscience

Peter A. Alces, William & Mary Law School
John Callender, University of Aberdeen
Deborah Denno, Fordham Law School
Paul Davies, College of William & Mary
David Faigman, University of California Hastings College of the Law
Farah Focquaert, Ghent University
Owen Jones, Vanderbilt University Law School
Kent A. Kiehl, University of New Mexico
Emily Murphy, University of California Hastings College of the Law
Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University
Burkhard Schafer, Edinburgh Law School
Elizabeth Shaw, University of Aberdeen School of Law
Bruce Waller, Youngstown State University

The Symposium took place on Friday, February 19 and Saturday, February 20, 2021. Papers submitted as part of the Symposium were published in Volume 63 of the Law Review.

 

2020 Symposium: The Future of Fiduciary Law

Evan J. Criddle, William & Mary Law School
Deborah A. DeMott, Duke University School of Law
Evan Fox-Decent, McGill University Faculty of Law
Andrew Gold, Brooklyn Law School
Devika Hovell, London School of Economics and Political Science
Andrew Kent, Fordham Law School
Ethan J. Leib, Fordham Law School
Paul B. Miller, University of Notre Dame Law School
Julian Velasco, University of Notre Dame Law School

The Symposium took place on Friday, February 21 and Saturday, February 22, 2020. Papers submitted as part of the Symposium were published in Volume 62 of the Law Review.

2019 Symposium: The Role of Courts in Politically Charged Moments

Jack M. Beermann, Boston University School of Law
Erwin Chemerinsky, Berkeley Law
Barry Cushman, University of Notre Dame Law School
Erin F. Delaney, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Bert I. Huang, Columbia Law School
Allison Orr Larsen, William & Mary Law School
Margaret H. Lemos, Duke University School of Law
Marin K. Levy, Duke University School of Law
Mary-Rose Papandrea, University of North Carolina School of Law
Richard H. Pildes, NYU School of Law
Daniel B. Rodriguez, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law

The Symposium took place on Friday, February 22 and Saturday, February 23, 2019. Papers submitted as part of the Symposium were published in Volume 61 of the Law Review.

2018 Symposium: Antitrust and the Constitutional Order

Rebecca Haw Allensworth, Vanderbilt University Law School
Jonathan B. Baker, American University Washington College of Law
Daniel Crane, University of Michigan Law School
Hillary Greene, University of Connecticut School of Law
William E. Kovacic, George Washington University Law School
Alan J. Meese, William & Mary Law School
Thomas B. Nachbar, University of Virginia School of Law
Barak Y. Orbach, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
William H. Page, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Barak D. Richman, Duke University School of Law
D. Daniel Sokol, University of Florida Levin College of Law

The Symposium took place on Friday, February 23 and Saturday, February 24, 2018. Papers submitted as part of the Symposium were published in Volume 60 of the Law Review. Recordings of each panel discussion are accessible online: Antitrust and the First AmendmentEconomic Liberty: Competition and the ConstitutionAntitrust and Federalism; and Institutional Design of Antitrust Enforcement.  

2017 Symposium: 2020 Redistricting: Mapping a New Political Decade

Joseph Fishkin, University of Texas Law School 
Pamela Karlan, Stanford Law School 
Michael Morley, Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law 
Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland (8th District) 
Brian Cannon, Executive Director, OneVirginia2021
Christopher Elmendorf, UC Davis School of Law 
Rebecca Green, William & Mary Law School 
Guy-Uriel Charles, Duke University School of Law 
Richard Hasen, University of California, Irvine School of Law 
Dale Ho, Director, Voting Rights Project, ACLU 
Ellen Katz, University of Michigan Law School 
Bruce Cain, Stanford Law School 
Wendy K. Tam Cho, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Nicholas Stephanopoulos, University of Chicago Law School 
Emily Zhang, Stanford Law School 
Edward Foley, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law 
Justin Levitt, Loyola Law School 
Daniel Tokaji, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law 
Franita Tolson, Florida State University College of Law 

The Symposium took place on Friday, February 17 and Saturday, February 18, 2017. Papers submitted as part of the Symposium were published in Volume 59, Issue 5 of the Law Review.

2016 Symposium: Judicial Supremacy v. Departmentalism 

Rebecca Brown, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Erin Delaney, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Neal Devins, William & Mary Law School
Mark Graber, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Corinna Barrett Lain, University of Richmond School of Law
Sanford V. Levinson, University of Texas School of Law
Victoria Nourse, Georgetown University Law Center
Saikrishna Prakash, University of Virginia School of Law
Fred Schauer, University of Virginia School of Law
Kevin C. Walsh, University of Richmond School of Law
Keith E. Whittington, Princeton University

The Symposium took place on Friday, February 19 and Saturday, February 20, 2016. Papers submitted as part of the Symposium were published in Volume 58, Issue 4 of the Law Review.

2015 Symposium: Plea Bargaining Regulation: the Next Criminal Procedure Frontier 

Stephanos Bibas, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Josh Bowers, University of Virginia School of Law
Carol A. Brook, Federal Defender Program for the Northern District of Illinois
Hon. Justice Bruno Fiannaca, Supreme Court of Western Australia
Hon. Judge David Harvey, District Court in New Zealand
Paul Marcus, William & Mary Law School
Jenny McEwan, Exeter University
Hon. Justice Renee Pomerance, Ontario Superior Court of Justice
Darryl K. Brown, University of Virginia School of Law
I. Bennett Capers, Brooklyn Law School
Gabriel J. Chin, UC Davis School of Law
Donald A. Dripps, University of San Diego Law School
Roger A. Fairfax, Jr., George Washington University Law School
Brandon L. Garrett, University of Virginia School of Law
Jenny Roberts, American University Washington College of Law
Ronald F. Wright, Wake Forest University School of Law
Christopher Slobogin, Vanderbilt Law School
Jenia I. Turner, SMU Dedman School of Law

The Symposium took place on Friday, February 20 and Saturday, February 21, 2015. Papers submitted as part of the Symposium were published in Volume 57, Issue 4 of the Law Review.

2014 Symposium: The Contemporary First Amendment: Freedom of Speech, Press, and Assembly

Ashutosh Bhagwat, UC Davis School of Law
Joseph Blocher, Duke University School of Law
Julie Cohen, Georgetown University Law Center
John Inazu, Washington University School of Law
Leslie Kendrick, University of Virginia School of Law
Heidi Kitrosser, University of Minnesota Law School
Ronald Krotoszynski, Alabama School of Law
Gregory Magarian, Washington University School of Law
Mary-Rose Papandrea, Boston College Law School
Martin Redish, Northwestern University School of Law
Neil Richards, Washington University School of Law
Mark Rosen, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia School of Law
Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School

The Symposium gathered leading First Amendment scholars to discuss topics including the sources and scope of free speech protection, Internet exceptionalism, leaks of classified information, privacy, the intersection of freedom of speech and economic interests, comparative and cross-cultural expressive concerns, the regulation of public assembly, and government subsidization of speech. 

The Symposium took place on February 21 and February 22, 2014. Papers submitted as part of the Symposium will be published in Volume 56, Issue 4 of the Law Review.

2013 Symposium: The Civil Jury as a Political Institution

The debate over the civil jury in the United States – in both the academic literature and public domain -- tends to focus on how good or bad it is as an adjudicative institution.  But its justification has always been as a political institution.  Though the civil jury’s role as a political institution has strong historical roots, its place in our contemporary political system has received relatively little, sustained scholarly attention. This Symposium built on recent work taking a renewed look at the various justifications for the civil jury as a political institution: as an instrument of popular sovereignty, a vehicle for applying community norms in law, a source of democratic legitimacy, and a check on government and corporate power. We brought together a group of people from different disciplines, including law, political science and psychology, to bring both theoretical and empirical perspectives to bear on this important set of issues.

The Symposium was held February 22 and 23, 2013. Papers submitted as part of the Symposium were published in Volume 55, Issue 3 of the William & Mary Law Review.

2012 Symposium: Law Without a Lawmaker

Anthony Bellia, Notre Dame Law School
Lea Brilmayer, Yale Law School
Bradford Clark, George Washington University Law School
Abbe Gluck, Columbia Law School
Craig Green, Temple University Law School
Michael Steven Green, William & Mary Law School
Emily Kadens, University of Texas Law School
Caleb Nelson, University of Virginia Law School
Kermit Roosevelt, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Steven D. Walt, University of Virginia Law School
Louise Weinberg, University of Texas Law School
Ernest A. Young, Duke Law School

This Symposium was devoted to exploring the existence and validity of law not created by the lawmakers of a particular jurisdiction. Some of the questions addressed were: What was the nature of the general common law under the regime of Swift v. Tyson? How did Erie end this regime and what, if anything, was Erie's constitutional source? Do the principles used to decide choice-of-law cases transcend the law of any jurisdiction, and, if so, are they unconstitutional? Does customary international law transcend the law of any jurisdiction, and, if so, is it unconstitutional? Where else can law not created by the lawmakers of a particular jurisdiction be found? Is the appeal to such law an inescapable fact of legal reasoning?

The 2012 Symposium took place on February 24 and February 25, 2012. Papers submitted as part of the Symposium were published in Volume 54, Issue 3.

2011 Symposium: Constitutional Transformations

John O. McGinnis, Northwestern University Law School
Paul M. Schwartz, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Jide Nzelibe, Northwestern University Law School
John C. Yoo, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Edward L. Rubin, Vanderbilt University Law School
Frederick Schauer, University of Virginia School of Law
Helen Hershkoff, New York University School of Law
Gillian E. Metzger, Columbia Law School
Amy L. Wax, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Robin L. West, Georgetown University Law Center
Christopher S. Yoo, University of Pennsylvania Law School

This Symposium gathered 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 addressed 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.

This Symposium took place on February 25 and February 26, 2011.  Papers submitted at the Symposium were published in Volume 53, Issue 2 of the Law Review.

2009 Symposium: Boundaries of Intellectual Property

Margo Bagley, University of Virginia School of Law
Dan Burk, University of California at Irvine School of Law
Graeme Dinwoodie, Chicago-Kent College of Law
John Duffy, George Washington University Law School
Brett Frischmann, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
James Gibson, University of Richmond School of Law
Wendy Gordon, Boston University School of Law
Steven Hetcher, Vanderbilt University Law School
Nicolas Jondet, University of Edinburgh
Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School
Jessica Litman, University of Michigan Law School
Jason Mazzone, Brooklyn Law School
Brett McDonnell, University of Minnesota Law School
Mark McKenna, Notre Dame Law School
Michael Meurer, Boston University School of Law
Pamela Samuelson, Berkeley Law School
Joshua D. Sarnoff, American University – Washington College of Law
Rebecca Tushnet, Georgetown University Law Center
Jane Winn, University of Washington

This Symposium was published in Volume 51, Issue 2 of the Law Review.