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Timestamp: 2019-04-26 06:39:41+00:00

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Bob Rubin, Partner at Peter, Rubin & Sheffield, P.A.
Panel III: Human Trafficking and Prostitution: What Should We Do?
In light of recent global events, the 2017 Thrower Symposium panelists explored a vast array of issues and threats confronting our nation in the twenty-first century. These topics include cybersecurity, applicable law doctrines, corporate responsibility, new technologies and their effects on national security, immigration, domestic terrorism, and cross-border security. The breadth of these topics demonstrated the need for organized and thoughtful discussion.
The 2016 Thrower Symposium explored the tensions, complementarities, and resulting legal implications in three rapidly changing and developing areas of national security: cyber security; new technologies, including domestic drones; and transnational tensions in domestic security, immigration laws, and cross-border security. Recent developments in the national security law arena demonstrate a strong need for organized and thoughtful discussions on threats and corresponding responses in these areas--at local, federal, and international levels; as well as across the public-private divide. The diverse opinions and approaches to assessing these issues created an opportunity for stimulating dialogue on the future of national security law.
Is the U.S. Still a Common Law Country?
The Emory Law Journal is pleased to present a special symposium the Journal has put together with the invaluable assistance of Professor Michael Z. Green of the Texas A&M University School of Law. Our symposium will address the continued viability of the National Labor Relations Board as an administrative agency at the dawn of its eightieth anniversary. The decisions and actions of the Board have drawn increased scrutiny in the modern era, and even more so in the wake of President Obama's efforts to ensure the Board was comprised of a full contingent of members. But even before President Obama was elected, because the Board primarily develops its rules through adjudications its decisions have become quite controversial, no doubt in part as a result from the lack of legislative changes to guide the agency's actions over the past forty years. The NLRB’s effectiveness as it reaches its eightieth anniversary in 2015 represents an important legal question and a major concern for all those interested in labor law. This Symposium will assemble some of the most prominent labor law scholars in the country along with the NLRB Chairman and NLRB General Counsel and other members of the NLRB to assess the role of the Board today, what actions Congress may take with respect to the Board, and what the future of the Board might be. Specifically, our symposium will feature three panels, highlighted below.
This event is co-sponsored by the Labor and Employment Law section of the State Bar of Georgia.
The Emory Law Journal is pleased to present the 2015 Randolph W. Thrower Symposium: "The New Age of Communication: Freedom of Speech in the 21st Century." Broadly speaking, the symposium will explore the changing doctrine of free speech in the United States. The Supreme Court has been actively shaping speech rights through decisions such as McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, Snyder v. Phelps, and United States v. Alvarez. These new opinions and approaches create an occasion for stimulating dialogue on the foundations, current doctrines, and future of free speech. The 2015 Thrower Symposium was developed with Professor Alexander Tsesis of Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
American Dispute Resolution in 2020: The Death of Group Vindication of the Law?
Panel 1: In a Class by Itself: Has the Roberts Court Slammed the courthouse Door on Class Actions?
Recently, the Supreme Court has cut back on the ability of parties to press claims collectively. Starting with Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. AnimalFeeds International Corp., running through AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, and continuing this year with Comcast Corp. v. Behrend and American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant, the Court has transformed the manner in which individuals may press their claims. Pushing beyond the scope of past symposia on differing methods of dispute resolution, the symposium will focus on the implications of a system that shuts out consumers and other citizens from collective vindication of their contractual and other economic rights. Explored through the framework of class actions, mass arbitrations, and global settlements, these broad implications will emerge as answers to underlying questions regarding the efficiency, manageability, and even desirability of this potential extinction of group actions. To that end, the 2014 Randolph W. Thrower Symposium presented by the Emory Law Journal will bring together the leading scholars and practitioners in the realm of complex litigation as it relates to this potentially tectonic shift in our legal system.
In recent years, the government has increasingly contracted out public functions and services to private parties. Prompted in part by government budget cuts, key Supreme Court decisions, and American involvement in conflicts abroad, private parties play an increasingly critical role in the government. Expanding on previous discussions of privatization, the symposium will focus on certain aspects of privatization that have evolved in recent years. Underlying questions include whether the changed economy makes privatization more critical, how privatization has changed legal liability, how previous legal practices should be reassessed, and whether certain public functions should not be delegated despite increased efficiency. To that end, the 2013 Randolph W. Thrower Symposium presented by the Emory Law Journal will bring together leading scholars and practitioners to advance the discussion of privatization as it relates to modern liability and practices. Click here to see the schedule.
If you have any questions about the symposium, please email Devon Sherrell, Executive Symposium Editor.
Information about the 2020 Randolph W. Thrower Symposium will be available in the fall. Please check this page often for details and registration.
Since 1995, Emory University School of Law and the Emory Law Journal have hosted the Randolph W. Thrower Symposium, part of an endowed lecture series sponsored by Thrower's family.

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