The Iowa Law Review's Symposium is a biennial forum for legal scholarship—bringing together the foremost experts on a common topic of current and future importance in the law. While legal symposia are now ubiquitous, it was at the Iowa Law Review where they began. Since its first Symposium on administrative law in 1933—including contributions from legal giants such as Felix Frankfurter and John Wigmore—the Iowa Law Review's Symposium has and continues to host symposia on topics as varied as the law itself. The Iowa Law Review is proud of its Symposium's ninety-year record of facilitating excellent legal scholarship and is excited to continue this tradition of excellence.

Now Accepting Proposals for the Iowa Law Review’s Fall 2026 Symposium

The Iowa Law Review is excited to announce that we are now accepting proposals for our Volume 112 Symposium, to be held during the fall semester of 2026. 

Proposals should be submitted via email to the Iowa Law Review’s Symposium Articles Editor for Volume 111, Emma Diers, at emma-diers@uiowa.edu. Proposals received by August 15, 2025, will be considered. 

Proposals must include: (1) a topic, including a description of the likely appeal to the Iowa Law Review’s reading constituencies and an analysis of the relationship between the symposium and what scholarship has already been published by law reviews on the same and similar topics; (2) the nature of the pieces to be published—e.g., essays or articles; (3) likely authors; (4) timing of the symposium—e.g., late October; and (5) likely sources of funding. Additional relevant information may be included. 

The Iowa Law Review will select its 2026 Symposium by August 25. A notification will then be sent to all who submitted a proposal. 

Please reach out to Emma Diers with any questions. She can be reached via email at emma-diers@uiowa.edu. We look forward to reading your proposal. 

Symposium 2024

Economic Implications of Climate Change

Presented by: Iowa Law Review

Co-Sponsors: Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative and the Classical Liberal Institute

September 19 & 20, 2024