Volume 100 Symposia

Notre Dame Law Review Symposia 2024-2025: Request for Proposals

The Notre Dame Law Review invites proposals for its two 2024-2025 symposia. As has been tradition for over 25 years, one of the Law Review’s symposia will be dedicated to topics in the area of federal courts, practice, and procedure. A second symposium has covered a broad range of topics over the years. This year’s symposia are particularly special, as the Law Review celebrates its 100th volume.

Previous Federal Courts, Practice, & Procedure Symposium topics include:

• State Standing
• The Future of Qualified Immunity
• Constitutional Structure
• The Eleventh Amendment, Sovereign Immunity, & Alden v. Maine

Previous general symposium topics include:

• Constitutional Reconstruction: History and the Meaning of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments
• Contemporary Free Speech: The Marketplace of Ideas a Century Later
• Administrative Lawmaking in the 21st Century
• Religious Liberty and the Free Society: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Dignitatis Humanae
• The American Congress: Legal Implications of Gridlock

The Notre Dame Law Review has a long tradition of hosting symposia that bring together well-respected and diverse speakers around a variety of timely and thought-provoking legal topics. Annual Symposia provide an environment for intellectual engagement and an opportunity to wrestle with pressing legal issues. Traditionally, each participant publishes an article in one of the Law Review’s symposium issues.

What to Include in Your Proposal

Please submit your proposal as a PDF document. A strong proposal should be no more than five pages long and include the following:

• A proposed title;
• A brief description explaining the topic, its importance, and is relevance (no more than 500 words);
• A list of individuals you might invite to write pieces for your proposed symposium for publication in the Notre Dame Law Review;
  • Please indicate what level of interest, if any, each individual has expressed.
  • Please note that symposium issues generally include seven to ten articles.
• If available, a brief description of proposed paper topics;
• A list of individuals who might participate in your symposium without writing pieces for publication or who may be interested in publishing shorter response pieces in the Law Review’s online journal, Reflection and what interest, if any, they have expressed in participating);
• The name and contact information of the proposed symposium organizer, who would serve as the point person for coordination and decisions with the Law Review executive board; and
• Any potential sources of funding.

Please indicate whether this proposal would require more than one day. Symposia are traditionally held on one day only.

How to Submit a Proposal

Please submit your proposal by email to ndlrev@nd.edu. The Notre Dame Law Review will be accepting submissions until March 8, 2024.

Proposal Selection

The Symposium Team will review each proposal based on:

• Definition & focus of topic
• Originality of topic
• Timeliness & importance of topic
• Experience & expertise of proposed presenters/ panelists
• Academic quality
• Optional: Integration of the Notre Dame Law Review’s Centennial Celebration

Questions should be directed to Managing Symposium Editor Olivia Lyons at olyons@nd.edu.

Thank you, and we look forward to hearing from you!