2022 Legal Forum Symposium: Borders & Boundaries | The University of Chicago Legal Forum

We divide and partition the polity through laws that leave their mark on those at the boundaries. The University of Chicago Legal Forum will convene scholars to challenge the laws of separation. Panelists from across the US will meet to explore voting rights; redistricting; markets; immigration; and the very nature of liberal democracy. Where the current law governing borders and boundaries is deficient, we plan to offer remedies.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Opening Remarks
9:00 a.m.

PANEL I: MARKETS
9:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

The Gravity of Legal Diffusion
Anu Bradford, Adam Chilton, & Katerina Linos

Using Borders to Expand Regulatory Boundaries: Market Access as the
Basis for Extraterritorial Corporate Regulation
Rachel Brewster

Socio-cognitive Categories and Dynamic Markets
Elizabeth Pontikes

PANEL 2: RIGHTS
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 p.m.

Deploying Trustworthy AI in the Courtroom: Lessons from Examining
Algorithm Bias in Redistricting AI
Wendy K. Tam Cho and Bruce E. Cain

Non-Retrogression Without a Non-Retrogression Rule
Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos

KEYNOTE
12:15 p.m. – 1:20 p.m.
Dividing the Body Politic
Professor James A. Gardner,’84, University at Buffalo (SUNY Buffalo).

PANEL 3: IMMIGRATION
1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

Borders that Bend
César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

Bureaucracy as Border in Immigration Law
Nicole Hallett

Borders as if People Mattered
Beth Simmons

PANEL 4: DEMOCRACY
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Cross-Border Influencers: Democracy and Externalities
Saul Levmore

Effective Government
Richard Pildes

About the Legal Forum
First published in 1985, the University of Chicago Legal Forum is the Law School’s second-oldest journal. The Legal Forum is a student-edited journal that focuses on a single cutting-edge legal issue every year, presenting an authoritative and timely approach to a particular topic.

The Symposium Is Open to the Public
Registration is not required, but seating is limited. For more information, please contact Fernando Arias at faa@uchicago.edu. For special assistance needs, please contact Katie Graves at kgraves@uchicago.edu.