The Virginia Law Review (VLR) Online invites you to join us in Charlottesville, Virginia on February 17, 2023 for this year’s Symposium: “50 Years After San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez: New and Old Fights for Equity in Public Schools.” Fifty years ago, the majority of the Supreme Court in Rodriguez rejected the claim that education is a fundamental right and held that Texas’ system of using local property taxes to fund its public schools did not violate the Equal Protection Clause. Today, the fight for equity in K-12 public education continues on numerous fronts––some decades-old and some unique to the present moment. With debates about public schooling increasingly becoming a microcosm of larger political and social issues, we are interested in contextualizing these struggles and thinking creatively about ways to forge a more just and equitable system. This one-day Symposium will feature paper presentations, topical panel discussions, a book signing, a keynote address, and more. 

Schedule

To view the Symposium schedule, please see HERE.

Registration

All Symposium participants and attendees must register for the event by securing a free Eventbrite ticket HERE.

Planning Your Trip

For more information about planning your trip to Charlottesville, Virginia, please see HERE.

Information about parking at the Law School on the day of the Symposium can be found HERE.

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Please direct questions to the Online Development Editor, Sydney Stanley (sas5av@virginia.edu).

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We welcome submissions on this topic from scholars, practitioners, activists, and law students. Submissions should range between 5,000 and 9,000 words.

Submissions are due by September 1 at 11:59 EST. Please email submissions in Microsoft Word format to valawrev.online@gmail.com. The subject line of the email should read “Justice in Transition Symposium Submission.” Submissions should be in Times New Roman 12, should utilize footnotes instead of endnotes, and should have numbered pages. All submissions must include a copy of the manuscript and the author’s most recent resume or CV.

Accepted authors must be available to attend the Symposium in-person in Charlottesville on Friday, February 7. All traveling and lodging will be reimbursed.

Please reach out to VLR’s Online Development Editor, Kevin Hoang, at bga4jv@virginia.edu or VLR’s Editor-in-Chief, Courtney Capen Douglas, at ccdouglas@email.virginia.edu, with any questions. We look forward to reviewing your submissions!

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The Symposium is free to attend, but are asking that you please register for the Symposium for planning purposes: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virginia-law-review-online-symposium-2024-tickets-794265809417?aff=oddtdtcreator

More information about the Symposium will be released on Virginia Law Review’s website and social media platforms in the near future. Please reach out to Online Development Editor Dennis Ting (csc6qe@virginia.edu) with any questions or to receive email updates about the Symposium.

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The Virginia Law Review (VLR) Online is thrilled to host its annual Online Symposium, on February 18th, 2022, to discuss what works—and what doesn’t—with current legal pedagogy. The Symposium will explore whose interests legal pedagogy serves, whether legal pedagogy should involve more clinical or theoretical education, whether current legal pedagogy achieves the stated goals of law schools, the ways in which legal pedagogy exacerbates inequalities in the legal system, and the capacity for legal pedagogy to change.

Symposium Schedule

Link to Webinar for all events (excluding panels): https://law-virginia.zoom.us/j/92271117428?pwd=ekIvVFJ5c3hUazNla21oMFc3bmZUZz09

10:30-10:45- Introductions by VLR and Dean Goluboff

10:45-11:45- Paper Presentations

• Gender Differences in Law School Classroom Participation: The Key Role of Social Context by Professors Shadel, Trawalter, and Verkerke. The professors undertook three studies to examine when and why women at an elite law school, the University of Virginia, speak in class and this paper summarizes their findings. 
• The Gender Participation Gap and the Politics of Pedagogy by Professors Shadel and Coughlin. Professors Shadel and Coughlin sought to put the above piece, by Shadel, Trawalter, and Verkerke, into a broader context by detailing the history of cold-calling and law schools’ hostility towards women. 
• Moving Law Teaching Beyond Opinions to Spark Students’ Legal Imaginations By Professors Keene and McMahon. Professors Keene and McMahon critique the case method for freezing students’ minds in the status quo and propose surrounding opinions with other materials (briefs, dissents, legal scholarship, etc.) to open up their legal imaginations. 
• Feminist Legal History and Legal Pedagogy by Professor Monopoli, who suggests that the lack of feminist legal history in the curriculum, which would better ground student and faculty understanding of feminist legal theory, accounts for some of the lack of impact such theory has had on legal pedagogy and scholarship.

11:45-12:15- Professor Baldwin Clark Keynote Address

12:15-1:30- Lunch for registered guests

1:30-2:30- Panels

• “Writing and Legal Skills Instruction Across the Curriculum”
  • Moderator: Professor Joe Fore, UVA 
  • Panelists
    • Professor Jennifer Romig, Emory
    • Professor Kathy Stanchi, UNLV
    • Professor Bridget Crawford, Pace
    • Professor O.J. Salinas, UNC
  • Zoom link: https://law-virginia.zoom.us/j/99210036812?pwd=OEpoVXlveXZsNTYxLytjZ1puRFVoUT09
• “Training Lawyers or Thinkers? Balancing Clinical and Theoretical Approaches to Legal Education”
  • Moderator: Professor Sarah Shalf, UVA
  • Panelists
    • Professor Dan Nagin, Harvard
    • Professor Robert Kuehn, Washington University
    • Professor Deirdre Enright, UVA
  • Zoom link: https://virginia.zoom.us/j/98580293779?pwd=YU9vc0lVOExZeDVQcHNUV05TNVN0UT09
• “The Importance of Incorporating Race into the Traditional Legal Curriculum”
  • Moderator: Professor Tim Lovelace, Duke
  • Panelists
    • Professor Zahr K. Said, Washington
    • Professor Carliss Chatman, Washington and Lee
    • Professor Camille Gear Rich, USC
  • Zoom link: https://virginia.zoom.us/j/92433674603?pwd=Q1I0MHljdk5CNEVNUzZxN1QrMHkzZz09

2:45- 3:45 pm- Q+A with the hosts of the podcast 5-4

• • Moderated by Professors Barzun and Frampton

4-4:30- Alec Karakatsanis Keynote Address

4:30-4:45- Closing and Thank Yous

Any questions should be directed to the Online Development Editor, Elizabeth Adler (eca7ba@virginia.edu).

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The Jurisprudence and (Its) History Symposium featured seven invited speakers, who each present a paper, and seven commentators, who introduced each session with a comment on each paper.  Those papers and commentaries have been published in Volume 101, Issue 4 of the Virginia Law Review, and can be found here.

Symposium Description

The term “jurisprudence” typically refers to the philosophy of law. So understood, its aspirations are broad and deep; its aim is not to master some particular area of legal doctrine but to understand the nature and purpose of law in general. For the past several decades, however, jurisprudence has come to describe the more specific practice of using the techniques of analytic philosophy to clarify the meaning of familiar legal concepts, such as “right,” “duty,” “authority,” or “law” itself.  

One consequence of this narrowing of scholarly ambitions is that less attention has been paid to those legal philosophers from the past who have had different, and often broader, understandings of what philosophical inquiry into law properly entails. In part because of this neglect, today many law students, law teachers, and lawyers who are deeply interested in exploring the intellectual foundations of law have dismissed jurisprudence as an esoteric field of study whose practitioners are gripped by concerns remote from their own.  

The aim of this symposium is to consider whether the boundaries of jurisprudence might be broadened, and its insights deepened, by looking to the history of jurisprudential thought. Some papers examine the work of past legal philosophers, others consider the role that the history of legal provisions – particularly constitutional ones – plays in legal theory, and still others take up directly the methodological question of whether or in what way philosophical thinking has been or should be, influenced by its own intellectual history.  What all of the papers share, however, is a common concern with how history bears on philosophical thinking about law. 

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Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Law and the Virginia Law Review.

Symposium Description

The first Equal Rights Amendment was drafted by the National Women’s Party in 1921 to enshrine equality for women in the Constitution. Fifty-one years later, the Equal Rights Amendment won the requisite two-thirds vote in the House of Representatives and passed the Senate.  In 2020, Virginia became the thirty-eighth state to vote in favor of the ERA, but whether the ERA has accordingly been ratified remains politically and legally contested. 

Since 2013, Black Lives Matter has been a global social movement advocating against anti-Black racism and state-sanctioned violence, including but not limited to police brutality against Black men and women.  The movement has attracted broad participation by non-Black activists and lawmakers following the police murder of George Floyd.

This virtual law school symposium will explore the intersectional nature of race and sex (including LGBTQ+) equality movements, the contributions of activists with intersectional identities, and the potential role of intersectional theories to inform future efforts to advance race and sex equality. The symposium will culminate in a keynote speech by Elaine R. Jones at 1:45 p.m., the first Black woman to graduate from UVA Law School—fifty years ago — and the first Black woman to serve as Director-Counsel and President of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF). During the event, the 2021 Gregory H. Swanson Award will be presented.  Named after UVA’s first Black student, the award recognizes UVA law students who demonstrate courage, perseverance and a commitment to justice. 

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