Document Type

Working Paper

Publication Date

3-21-2014

SSRN Discipline

Economics Research Network; Legal Scholarship Network; Law School Research Papers - Legal Studies; LSN Subject Matter eJournals; Humanities Network; Political Science Network

Abstract

Law review symposia are a major means by which legal developments establish and validate themselves They can highlight developments in an established field like samesex marriage in family law or cover an entirely new field such as game theory or rational choice These symposia and their authors help establish and delimit the legal canon Following up on a previous article exploring the law review symposium issue this study of subsequent law review symposia shows how certain recurrent figures and groups tend to dominate symposia on mainstream issues while outsider scholars remain poorly represented and ghettoized to symposia on race and civil rights

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