Boston University Law Review Online Symposia

Since 2013, Boston University Law Review Online has selected a trending topic or recently published legal book or article on which to hold an online symposium. Scholars in the field contribute commentaries. For book and article symposia, the author has an opportunity to respond to those comments.

Recent Online Symposia:

Carla D. Pratt’s Indianness as Property

In the B.U. Law Review’s 2025 February issue, Professor Carla D. Pratt published an article titled Indianness as Property, 105 B.U. L. Rev. 311 (2025). Since then, three scholars have submitted invited responses. One of the three is forthcoming and will be updated accordingly.

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Reva Siegel and Mary Ziegler’s Comstockery

Boston University Law Review invited scholars to comment on Reva Siegel and Mary Ziegler’s article Comstockery: How Government Censorship Gave Birth to the Law of Sexual and Reproductive Freedom, and May Again Threaten It, 134 Yale L.J. (forthcoming 2024). Four scholars have submitted comments in advance of the 2024 election, and two more submitted comments in December 2024.

Past Symposia:

Asad Rahim’s The Legitimacy Trap

Advancing Pregnant Persons’ Right To Life Symposium

Devon Carbado’s Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment

Title IX at 50: Learning from the Past & Looking to the Future 

Vinay Harpalani’s Asian Americans, Racial Stereotypes, and Elite University Admissions

Jessica Silbey’s Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in Internet Age

Paul Enríquez’s Rewriting Nature: The Future of Genome Editing and How to Bridge the Gap Between Law and Science

Critical Legal Research: The Next Wave (A Panel in Honor of Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic)

Richard Hasen’s Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy

Dov Fox’s Birth Rights and Wrongs: How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law

Justin Driver’s The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind

Dotan Oliar & James Y. Stern’s Right on Time: First Possession in Property and Intellectual Property

Anthea Roberts’ Is International Law International?

Adam Winkler’s We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

Ganesh Sitaraman’s The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution

Sherry Colb and Michael Dorf’s Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights

Jay Wexler’s When God Isn’t Green: A World-Wide Journey to Places Where Religious Practice and Environmentalism Collide

Katherine Franke’s Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality

Danielle Keats Citron’s Hate Crimes in Cyberspace

Hanna Rosin’s The End of Men