Annual Symposium
Each year, the Law Review hosts a Symposium and publishes an issue on a trending legal topic. Traditionally, the Symposium is held in the Spring, and the issue is published later that Spring. Previous topics range from the Internet of Things to immigration.
2022 Symposium
The American University Law Review Presents: The Impact of Race on Youth [in]Justice
Missed the event? View each panel below!
Panel 1: Effective Transformations in the Juvenile Legal System Panel Discussion, featuring the following participants:
- Binny Miller, Co-Director, Criminal Justice Clinic & Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law (moderator)
- Attorney General Karl Racine, Attorney General, Washington, D.C.
- Professor Kristin Henning, Blume Professor of Law & Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative, Georgetown Law Center
- Professor Kim Taylor-Thompson, Professor of Clinical Law Emerita, New York University School of Law
Panel 2: Keynote Address, featuring
- Donnell Drinks, Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth
Panel 3: Special Immigrant Juvenile Status Application Backlog Panel Discussion, featuring the following participants:
- Professor Jayesh Rathod, Director, Immigrant Justice Clinic & Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law (moderator)
- Dalia Castillo-Granados, Director, Children's Immigration Law Academy, American Bar Association
- Professor Randi Mandelbaum, Director, Child Advocacy Clinic, Clinical Professor of Law & Annamay Sheppard Scholar, Rutgers Law School
- Professor Adrian Alvarez, Assistant Professor of Law, St. John's University School of Law
- Teresa Lee, Acting Managing Attorney, Kids in Need of Defense Washington, D.C. & Northern Virginia
Panel 4: Issues in the Family Regulation/Child Welfare System Panel Discussion, featuring the following participants:
- Professor Ann Shalleck, (moderator)
- Professor Jane Spinak, Edward Ross Aranow Clinical Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
- Professor Nancy Polikoff, Professor of Law Emerita, American University Washington College of Law
- Professor Kara Finck, Director, Interdisciplinary Child Advocacy Clinic & Practice Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
- Professor Jessica Dixon Weaver, Robert G. Storey Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Gerald J. Ford Research Fellow, & Professor of Law, Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law
Past Annual Symposia
Privacy in the Age of Emergency
New Perspectives: A Discussion on Modern Global Supply Chains
Anatomy of Justice: An Honest Conversation on the Criminal Justice System in 2017
Alexa, Are You Listening? Developments & Challenges in Data Privacy Law
Taxing Remote Sales in the Digital Age
Bordering on Legal Limits? A Symposium Analyzing the President’s Executive Action on Immigration