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UDC Law Review Symposia

2019-2020

• Reimagining Community Economic Development (March 27, 2020; Canceled Due to COVID-19 Precautions)

2018-2019

• Disability Rights: Past, Present, and Future (March 29, 2019)

2017-2018

• FHA@50: Renewing Our Commitment to Housing Equity (April 20, 2018)
• Cannabis and the Law: The Impact of Marijuana Legalization on the Drug War, Public Policy, and Social Justice (March 22, 2018)

2016-2017

• DC Democracy During the Time of Trump: 51 and 45 (April 14, 2017)
• Poverty’s Cost: How Privatization, Profits and Public Policy Place Higher Burdens on the Poor and People of Color (March 30, 2017)

2015-2016

• From Protest Movements of the ’60s to #BlackLivesMatter: Legal Strategies for an Emerging Civil Rights Movement (April 7, 2016)

2014-2015

• Not All Controversies End in Court: Checking the Balance in Alternative Dispute Resolution (March 27, 2015)

2013-2014

• Overcoming Barriers to Economic Opportunity in America Today: Renewing the War on Poverty Fifty Years Later (April 4, 2014)

2012-2013

• Expanding the Civil Right to Counsel: 50 Years After Gideon (March 29, 2013)
• Student Journal Symposium (November 13, 2012)

2011-2012

• Smartphones and the Fourth Amendment: The Future of Privacy in Our Hands (March 23, 2012)
• Student Journal Symposium (November 16, 2011)

2010-2011

• Life After the War on Drugs: Reviewing Past and Present Policies With an Eye Toward Legal Reform (March 24, 2011)
• Student Journal Symposium (November 18, 2010)

2009-2010

• A Review of Developmental Disability Law in D.C., Child Welfare and Justice Issues, and the Impact of the Freedom of Information Act in Keeping the Executive Branch of the D.C. Government Accountable to Citizens (February 26, 2010)

2008-2009

• The Struggle to Vote: the Right to Political Self-Determination in the District of Columbia and Beyond (March 27, 2009)

2007-2008

• Katrina’s Wake: Emergency Preparedness and Response from the Bayou to the Beltway (February 29, 2008)

2006-2007

• The 3rd Branch: Law, Justice, Democracy and the District of Columbia Courts (April 20, 2007)

2005-2006

• Strategies for Addressing Poverty and Inequality (April 7-9, 2006)
• Election Reform: Voting Rights for the New Millennium (September 30, 2005)

2004-2005

• Educating At-Risk Children in the 21st Century (October 29, 2004)

2003-2004

• In the Aftermath of September 11: Defending Civil Liberties in the Nation’s Capital (November 21, 2003)

2002-2003

• Zealous Advocacy in a Time of Uncertainty: Understanding Lawyers’ Ethics (April 25, 2003)

2001-2002

• Louisa Van Wezel Schwartz Symposium: Mental Health Issues in Correctional Institutions (March 25, 2002)

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