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Symposia

Upcoming Symposia

The Northwestern University Law Review has completed its selection process for the 2009-2010 symposium issue.  The Review will begin a new round of symposium selection in January 2010, for a live symposium to be held at Northwestern University School of Law in the fall of 2010 or spring of 2011.  That symposium will be published in the 106th volume of the Review (towards the end of 2011, or in early 2012).  If your topic is chosen, you will work closely with our Symposium and Essays Editor on working out the logistical details of the symposium.  We hope that you will consider this opportunity to organize a live symposium on your favorite topic, and encourage interested parties to submit symposium topics beginning on January 1, 2010.

If you would like to submit your topic for our consideration, please prepare a 5-6 page proposal, outlining the following information:

Topic Why the topic is timely Why the topic is important Why the topic is interesting How the topic advances legal scholarship Proposed list of participants Proposed panels (topic and the list of participants for each panel) Possible funding Any additional information that might help us in evaluating your proposal

You should submit your proposal to Kevin F. King, the Review's Symposium and Essays Editor.  Feel free to contact Kevin should you have any questions about the proposal.  To allow for ample time to secure symposium participants, we plan to select the topic by June 15, 2010.  Proposals received after April 1, 2010 will be considered only if the topic has not been chosen by that point.

We are looking forward to working with you on selecting the most engaging topic for our 2010/2011 symposium.

Past Symposia

2007:  Ordering State-Federal Relations Through Federal Preemption Doctrine

Published in Volume 102 of the Law Review

This Symposium explores the current and future role of federal preemption of state laws and regulations in such areas as tort and tort reform, drug regulation, and environmental protection.  The larger question addressed by a distinguished group of law faculty and lawyers from around the country is how should the federal courts balance federalism, state-sovereignty values with the constitutional principle of the supremacy of federal law.  The conference was held on April 5, 2007, the papers will be published in the 102d volume of the Review.

David Dana, Associate Dean for Faculty and Research and Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
Democratizing the Law of Federal Preemption

Richard A. Epstein, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, Faculty Director for Curriculum, and Director, Law and Economics Program, University of Chicago Law School
Federal Preemption, and Federal Common Law, in Nuisance Cases

Robert L. Glicksman, Robert W. Wagstaff Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law; and
Richard E. Levy, Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law
A Collective Action Perspective on Ceiling Preemption By Federal Environmental Regulation:  The Case of Global Climate Change

Howard Learner, Executive Director, Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC)
Restraining Federal Preemption When There Is An "Emerging Consensus" Of State Environmental Laws and Policies

Raymond Ludwiszewski, partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (Environment and Natural Resources Practice Group), Washington, D.C.
Cars, Carbon, and Climate Change

Nina A. Mendelson, Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
A Presumption Against Agency Preemption

Thomas W. Merrill, Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Preemption and Institutional Choice

Mark D. Rosen, Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Contextualizing Preemption

Robert A. Schapiro, Associate Dean of Faculty and Professor of Law, Emory University School of Law
Monophonic Preemption

Catherine M. Sharkey, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
The Fraud Caveat to Agency Preemption

Ernest A. Young, Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts, University of Texas School of Law
Executive Preemption

 Please contact Kevin F. King, Symposium and Essays Editor, for more information.

2006:  " Censorship and Institutional Review Boards"

2005:  "The First Century: Celebrating 100 Years of Legal Scholarship"