As the Executive Symposium Editors for Volume 60 of Georgia Law Review, it is our pleasure to announce our annual symposium for Spring 2026: Polarized Courts: The New Private Enforcement.
This year’s symposium will focus on the increasing use of private rights of action to perform enforcement traditionally done by state actors, the arms race among the states to enforce policy preferences through private rights of action, the ramifications for our union of these competing and polarizing uses of courts, and other similar topics. The symposium will include panels and a keynote address.
We will hold the symposium in person at the University of Georgia School of Law in Athens, Georgia, on Friday, March 20, 2026. Georgia Law Review will reimburse all reasonable travel and lodging expenses associated with participation in the symposium. If you wish to participate, we invite you to email us an abstract or short description of your article’s thesis, a brief biographic statement, and any questions about your potential participation. We may accept proposals that do not fit into one of the above-mentioned categories so long as they analyze related topics.
We will accept proposals on a rolling basis until the issue is filled. We will review submissions starting Tuesday, June 17, 2025. If we accept your proposal, we require an editable draft by Monday, January 5, 2026. We prefer articles containing between 10,000 and 20,000 words, but we will consider articles outside of this range. Thank you for your interest. We hope you will join us in Athens for this exciting conversation in March of 2026.
Julia A. Gillies & Savannah E. Stanley, Executive Symposium Editors
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Posted by Howard Wasserman on July 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM