Symposia

“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]

[1] http://commonwealthlaw.widener.edu/current-students/student-organizations/widenar-law-journal/

2024 Symposium: Judging and Administrative Law

April 15, 2024
8:50 am to 4:00 pm
This event will be held live, via Zoom.

The symposium will cover a variety of issues at both federal and state levels of administrative law, with panels tentatively organized around changes in administrative adjudication, the impact of counsel in administrative adjudication, recent developments in judicial review, and the independence of administrative law adjudicators. The symposium will feature a variety of scholars and practitioners discussing developments and changes in the context of federal and state administrative law from both academic- and practice-focused perspectives.

It will feature a keynote presentation from Judge J. Michelle Childs of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Click here to view the speaker bios (PDF)

Click here to view “WHAT’S BEHIND CORPORATE AMERICA’S NEWFOUND LOVE OF THE JURY TRIAL” slides (PDF)


Contemporary Legal Issues in Education (2023)
Voting Rights (2022)
Impacts of COVID-19 (2021)
Search, Seizure and Smartphones: A View of the Fourth Amendment Through Today’s Lens (2019)
Children in the Courts: A Developed or Developing System? (2018)
Governing in an Age of Partisanship (2017)
Ruling the Courts: The Future of Local Rules of Civil Procedure in Pennsylvania (2016)
Halt and Reform?: Death Penalty & Criminal Sentencing Guidelines (2015)
Bankruptcy and Beyond: Solving the Problem of Municipal Financial Distress (2014)
Perspectives on Mass Tort Litigation (2013)

Law Review Symposium Playlist on Widener Law Commonwealth’s YouTube Channel