“Each year, the Widener Commonwealth Law Review sponsors a symposium that brings together leading scholars, professors, judges, and practitioners to discuss history, advancements, and emerging issues related to a selected topic. Examples include Internet expression, sustainable energy, 50th anniversary of the National Conference of State Trial Judges, and Judicial Division of the American Bar Association.
This annual regional event for judges, lawyers, and legal professionals provides credits for continuing legal education in Pennsylvania.”[1]
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2025 Symposium: Legal Obstacles in Addressing Gender-Based Violence
April 4, 2025
9:00 am to 3:30 pm
Widener University Commonwealth Law School in Room A180
Legal Obstacles in Addressing Gender-Based Violence is a hybrid, daylong program curated by the Widener Commonwealth Law Review with an audience of students, educators, and practitioners. Our goal is to bring awareness to the topic of gender-based violence through panels on topics such as sexual violence, domestic violence, and human trafficking
Call for Submissions
The Widener Commonwealth Law Review invites submissions for its symposium on the legal obstacles in addressing gender-based violence. The articles published as a part of this symposium will appear in the 35th Volume of the Law Review and will be organized around the topic of gender-based violence—including sexual violence, domestic abuse, and human trafficking—and the obstacles in U.S. or international legal systems to prosecuting it, holding the perpetrators of violence criminally or civilly responsible, and ending the violence altogether. This call for papers opens today with submissions of approximately 500-word abstracts due on Friday, January 24, 2025. Selected proposals will be notified by early February 2025. Final articles will be due by July 5, 2025.
Please direct all submissions and questions to both:
• Professor Mary Kate Kearney, Faculty Advisor to the Law Review, at mkearney@widener.edu.
• Jessica Poley, Pennsylvania Law and Symposium Editor, at cwlawrev@widener.edu.
Submissions must include the following information:
• Name
• Contact information
• CV
• Abstract of approximately 500 words
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