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CHICAGO-KENT LAW REVIEW

Announcements

Issue 83:1, Law and Economic Development in Latin America: A Comparative Approach to Legal Reform has been published. This symposium took place at Chicago-Kent College of Law on April 13-14, 2007. The symposium editors are Professor Thomas Hill and Professor Richard Warner. An archived copy of the webcast is available here. The issue also includes student notes by Gina Bicknell, Sarah Suma, and Christine Zeivel.

 

Congratulations to those law review members selected for the 2008-2009 Executive Board:

Editor-in-Chief
Mathew Dudek

Managing Editor
Mathew Levinstein

Executive Notes and Comments Editor
Adam Joffe

Executive Articles Editors
Marina Aronchik
Andrew Booth
John Gunderson
Drew Kelly
Laura Rowe
Laura Schmeider
Sandra Stipp
Christopher St. Peter
Anne Walker

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Upcoming Issues

Issue 83:2, Rethinking Payments Law. This symposium took place at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on April 27, 2007. The symposium editors are Professor Steven Harris, Ms. Stephanie Heller, and Professor Linda Rusch. The symposium examined the current state of payments law, focusing in particular on the degree to which the legal infrastructure continues to be relevant to today's payment practices. A central question to be addressed in the symposia issue is whether society would be better served by a unified payments law-one that recognizes differences in payment types but seeks to apply consistent standards when possible-or by a multiplicity of laws, each of which governs a different payment system.

Issue 83:3, Recalling Vico's Lament: The Role of Prudence and Rhetoric in Law and Legal Education. Professor Francis Mootz is the symposium editor. This symposium issue will coincide with the 300th anniversary of Giambattista Vico's famous address at the University of Naples, On the Study Methods of our Time. There, Vico challenged the ascendancy of the Cartesian method and argued that the wisdom embodied in the ancient tradition of rhetoric should not be lost. The goal of this symposium issue is to revive Vico's intellectual insights and examine whether they shed light on the character of law and the objectives of legal education from a theoretical, epistemological, or practical perspective.

History of the Chicago-Kent Law Review The Chicago-Kent Law Review began as the "Chicago Kent Review" in 1923. Published several times a year, the Chicago Kent Review was to be, as Judge Henry Horner wrote in 1923, "a messenger . . . to carry the note of fraternity among the students and alumni of Chicago-Kent." By the 1930s, the journal had adopted its current name and began publishing scholarly articles by law professors and practitioners. The Chicago-Kent Law Review has published well over three hundred issues featuring original works by important scholars in the field of law and beyond. A number of years ago, the Law Review adopted an all-symposium format. The Law Review emphasizes developing its members' scholarly legal writing through a comprehensive, one-year writing program. Each issue of the Law Review showcases several of the best student works.