ANNOUNCING THE 2012 RANDOLPH W. THROWER SYMPOSIUM

Innovation for the Modern Era:
Law, Policy, and Legal Practice in a Changing World

Thursday, February 9, 2012
Emory University School of Law
Tull Auditorium

The Randolph W. Thrower Symposium is part of an endowed lecture series sponsored by Mr. Thrower's family and hosted by the Emory Law Journal and Emory University School of Law.

The modern era can be characterized as one of enormous challenges and unprecedented change. Fueled in no small part by rapid technological innovation, the world in recent decades has experienced revolutionary developments across numerous sectors of society—from politics, to economics, to human health and the environment to name only a few. The legal system, itself historically averse to sudden, drastic change, has seemingly struggled to keep pace with these developments. Yet while change can be disruptive, it can also present opportunities to address existing problems in novel ways. To that end, the 2012 Randolph W. Thrower Symposium presented by the Emory Law Journal will bring together leading scholars and practitioners to examine how law, policy, and legal practice can adapt to meet some of the challenges we as a society are currently facing.

Student Comments Selected for 2012-2013 Publication

D. Barret Broussard, Principles in Passion Killing: An Evolutionary Solution to Manslaughter Mitigation (Myron Penn Laughlin Award for Excellence in Legal Research and Writing)

Jared Buszin, Beyond School Finance: Changing the Focus of Education Reform Litigation to Realize the Deferred Dreams of Education Equality & Adequacy

Leah B. Chacon, Long-Term Contracting the Way to Renewable Energy Investment: Lessons from Brazil Applied to the U.S.

Sagiv Edelman, Proxy Advisory Firms: A Guide For Regulatory Reform

Simon P. Hansen, Whose Defense is it Anyway?: Redefining the Role of the Legislative Branch in the Defense of Federal Statutes

Chad Lennon, Accrual and Unusual? Calibrating the Statute of Limitations on Section 1983 Method-of-Execution Challenges

Michelle Marchiony, Making Debt Pay: Examining the Use of Property Tax Delinquency as a Revenue Source

Kristi North, Recess is Over: Granting Miranda Rights to Students Interrogated Inside School Walls

Francesca Pisano, Anti-Corruption Law & Corporate Philanthropy: Rethinking the Regulations

Elizabeth Redpath, When the Exception is the Rule: Applying Full Faith and Credit’s Public Policy Exception to the Full Spectrum of State Records (Mary Laura "Chee" Davis Award for Writing Excellence)

Sarah M. Sternlieb, When the Eyes and Ears Become an Arm of the State: The Danger of Privatization Through Government Funding of Insular Religious Groups

Suedabeh Walker, Drawing on Daubert: Bringing Reliability to the Forefront in the Admissibility of Eyewitness Identification Testimony