Each year the DePaul Law Review produces a Symposium focusing on current legal issues and attended by noted scholars and academics.  Recent topics for this symposium have included: 

• Media, Race, & the Death Penalty (2008)
• Protecting a National Moral Consensus: Challenges in the Application of Atkins v. Virginia (2007)
• Ties That Bind: Family Relationships, Biology, and the Law (2006)
• Precious Commodities: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts (2005) 
• Privacy & Identity: Constructing, Maintaining and Protecting Personhood (2004)
• Race as Proxy in Law and Society: Emerging Issues in Race and the Law (2003)
• Beyond Belonging: Challenging the Boundaries of Nationality (2002)
• The End of Adolescence (2001)
• Statutory Rape Realities: Scholarship and Practice (2000)

The DePaul College of Law Symposium this year is dedicated to effects of the War on Terror on the Constitution. The symposium will explore both the theoretical and practical implications of the government's response following the September 11th attacks. From a theoretical standpoint, it will consider the narrowing of Fourth Amendment rights in a time of undeclared war. From a practical standpoint, it will focus on the balancing of governmental necessity with individual rights.

The War on Terror Symposium will take place in March 2009 in the DePaul Conference Center. Exact dates, times, ticket and pricing information will be available shortly.

                                                                      - Symposium Editor, Volume 58