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• Past Symposia
  • March 1, 2024 – Louisiana’s Constitution at 50: The Past, Present, and Future of Louisiana’s Fundamental Law
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  • February 10, 2023 – Let’s Get Fiscal: Contemporary Considerations in Taxation and the Law
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  • February 11, 2022 – On the Basis of Sex: 50 Years of Title IX
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  • March 5, 2021 – The Impact of the 15th and the 19th Amendments on the 2020 Presidential Election
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  • January 31, 2020 – We The Jury
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  • February 1, 2019 – Criminal Justice Reform
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  • January 26, 2018 – The Fourteenth Amendment: 150 Years Later
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  • January 27, 2017 – Blurring Lines: Emerging Trends and Issues in Sports and Gaming Law
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  • March 18, 2016 – More than a Tradition: The Future of the Civil Law in Louisiana and Abroad
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  • January 22, 2016 – Throw Away the Key: Criminal Sentencing Reform in the 21st Century
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Symposium Objective and Purpose

On Friday, Jan. 31, Louisiana Law Review and the Pugh Institute for Justice will present “We The Jury: Conversations on the American Jury’s Past, Present, and Future” in the McKernan Auditorium at the Law Center. The symposium will feature legal practitioners and scholars from across the country who will discuss and analyze a variety of issues relating to the history of the jury, jury selection and representation, the Sixth Amendment and non-unanimous juries, and the role of the jury as a political and cultural institution.

Speakers include Professor Shari Diamond, Professor Paul Finkelman, Professor Daniel Harawa, Professor Alexis Hoag, Professor Brooks Holland, Professor Mary Graw Leary, Professor Renée Lerner, Professor Nancy Marder, Professor Gregory Parks, Paula Hannaford-Agor, Renée Manes, and local judges and lawyers including Judge Piper Griffin, Judge William Morvant, Skip Philips, J.E. Cullens, Jr., Will Snowden and Sam Crichton. LSU Law Center professors will moderate panels of scholars and practitioners in addressing these issues.

Please join us on January 31, 2020, as we explore the history, contemporary challenges, and future role of the American jury.