Our annual Symposium provides a forum for scholars, practitioners, and students to engage is discussion and debate about a relevant legal topic.

The 2023 Symposium, titled Knowledge at Risk: Democratic Erosion and the Contemporary Assault on Education and Expertise, took place on Friday, Nov. 3, and Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. View the Program.

Past Topics

• Neurotech: Neurotechnology and the Law (Fall 2022)
• Reproducing Injustice: COVID-19, Reproduction, and the Law (Fall 2021)
• ‘Impactful Interactions’ Symposium Explores How to Dismantle Legal Barriers Faced By Individuals with Disabilities (Fall 2020)
• Not Your Father's First Amendment (Fall 2019)
• Times of Reckoning: Confronting the Legacies of Mass Abuse through Transitional Justice (Fall 2018)
• Race and Policing in America (Fall 2017)
• Twenty Years After the 1996 Immigration Laws: Revisiting an Experiment in Comprehensive Severity (Fall 2016)
• Criminal Justice Reform (Spring 2016)
• Beyond Reproach: Becoming an Expert Witness (Fall 2014)
• ERISA: Past, Present, and Future (Spring 2014)
• International and Transnational Legal Education (Spring 2013)
• Building Global Professionalism (Fall 2012)
• Perspectives on Medical Malpractice Litigation and Patient Safety (Fall 2011)
• Business Improvement Districts and the Evolution of Urban Governance (Fall 2010)
• Perspectives on Fundamental Rights in South Asia (Spring 2010)
• Health Law (Spring 2009)