2026 Symposium Proposals
The Texas Law Review is now accepting proposals for our Volume 104 Symposium. We plan to host the symposium in January or February of 2026. The Review traditionally publishes a print issue following the symposium; author submissions for the issue will be due ahead of the event in early-January 2026.
Submissions for symposia are accepted via email at eic@texaslrev.com. Our editorial board plans to make a selection for the 2026 symposium shortly after the semester concludes in May. Please submit your proposal by Friday, April 18, 2025.
To enable our board to best assess your proposal, please describe your idea and its contribution to legal scholarship as fully as possible, including its originality, timeliness, and contribution to the diversity of legal ideas. Please also submit an addendum that includes the following:
- A list of potential symposium authors / speakers that you believe will add to the academic quality of the event and the resulting publication.
- An explanation of the appeal the symposium will have to legal practitioners, judges, and students such that these individuals will be inclined to attend the event.
- Any anticipated source(s) of funding for the proposed symposium.
- Please note that we may give preference to proposals that are funded.
- The name and contact information of the proposed sponsor who will serve as the point person for coordination with the Texas Law Review.
Please reach out to eic@texaslrev.com should you have any questions about submissions. We look forward to receiving your proposals!
2025 Texas Law Review Symposium on The Politics of IP
The symposium considered the role of intellectual property in liberal democracy. Participants explored the issues of intellectual property in our society and how it will resolve conflicts over equal concern in access to basic human needs and capabilities, free speech, creative expression, and access to knowledge. These debates encompassed not only current events and cases, but also echoed historical debates about the ways that intellectual property law has been conceptualized in terms of equitable rewards versus desirable welfarist outcomes, incentives versus access, individual inventorship and authorship versus social effects, and bleed into many moral debates about what we ought to do and what we owe to each other in a liberal society. The symposium discussed the ways that intellectual property accommodates, fulfills, or belies liberal values, how it should be designed with such values in mind, and, ultimately, whether and how intellectual property is vital to a liberal democratic order, and what may be alternatives to it.
Symposium participants included Bob Bone (University of Texas School of Law), Oren Bracha (University of Texas School of Law), Mala Chatterjee (Columbia Law School), Aman Gebru (University of Houston Law Center), John M. Golden (University of Texas School of Law), Patrick Goold (The City Law School, University of London), Glynn Lunney (Texas A&M School of Law), Mark McKenna (UCLA School of Law), Neil W. Netanel (UCLA School of Law), Shani Shisha (SMU Dedman School of Law), Jessica Silbey (Boston University School of Law), David Simon (Northeastern University School of Law), Kara Swanson (Northeastern University School of Law), Talha Syed (UC Berkeley School of Law), Anjali Vats (University of Pittsburgh School of Law), and Melissa Wasserman (University of Texas School of Law).
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