Symposia

Spring 2024 Symposium: Territorial Law Across the Curriculum

| Friday, March 22, 2024 • 8:30am – 4:30pm |

Past Symposia:

We Can And We Should: The Case For Original Research In Legal AcademiaApril 26, 2024
By Marcia M. Ziegler* As lawyers, we have great power—the things we say in courtrooms and write in publications across the country impact the lives of our clients and society as a whole. But as lawyers, we traditionally have not been active in original research—and that should change. We can and we should integrate our… Read more: We Can And We Should: The Case For Original Research In Legal Academia
A New Parlor Is Open: Legal Writing Faculty Must Develop Scholarship On Generative AI And Legal WritingApril 26, 2024
By Kirsten K. Davis* Generative artificial intelligence likely represents a paradigm shift in legal communication teaching, learning, and practice. What we know (so far) about generative AI suggests that law school legal writing courses will need to teach generative AI skills to be used as part of a hybrid human-generative AI legal writing process. Accordingly,… Read more: A New Parlor Is Open: Legal Writing Faculty Must Develop Scholarship On Generative AI And Legal Writing
Foie Gras’s Goose Is Cooked: Meat Producers Are Shoving Foie Gras Down Our Throats, But The Pact Act Could Bring Them DownApril 26, 2024
By Sierra Van Allen* This Article analyzes the statutory language of the PACT Act, passed in 2019, and applies the law to force-feeding ducks and geese on foie gras farms. While the PACT Act contains an exception for “customary and normal” agricultural husbandry, this Article argues that the force-feeding performed on foie gras farms is… Read more: Foie Gras’s Goose Is Cooked: Meat Producers Are Shoving Foie Gras Down Our Throats, But The Pact Act Could Bring Them Down
Pardon My Stat(E)Us: Exploring Applicability Of The Gubernatorial Pardon Power To CorporationsApril 26, 2024
By Kenya J.H. Smith* This Article begins with a focused survey of the gubernatorial pardon power provided in the four most populous American states: California, Texas, Florida, and New York. This Article then continues by discussing the theoretical bases supporting applicability of the gubernatorial pardon power to corporations and other juridical persons, focusing on the… Read more: Pardon My Stat(E)Us: Exploring Applicability Of The Gubernatorial Pardon Power To Corporations
Elon Musk And The Virtues Of RestraintApril 26, 2024
By David Rosenfeld* Elon Musk doesn’t much like the SEC. He has said publicly that he does “not respect the SEC” and called them “bastards.” He has repeatedly claimed that the SEC coerced him into a settlement over his “Taking Tesla Private” tweets by putting a gun to his child’s head. Musk has also pushed… Read more: Elon Musk And The Virtues Of Restraint