This Friday the University of Chicago Law School’s Legal Forum will convene their 2025 Symposium titled: “Authority, Oversight, and Accountability.”

The all-day event will examine the theme of executive power, and specifically, the restraints and remedies that exist within traditional legal frameworks that are meant to check that power. Scholars from around the country will join the symposium to discuss the topic on four panels, with UChicago Law Professors Richard McAdams, Jennifer Nou, Samual Bray, and David Straus serving as moderators. 

Adam Chilton, dean of the Law School and the Howard G. Krane Professor of Law, will deliver opening remarks. Hampton Dellinger, former special counsel of the US Office of Special Counsel, will deliver a lunchtime keynote titled: “From Watchdogs to Lapdogs to What Comes Next.”

The panels will address the following questions:

• How do private actors oversee the exercise of power?
• What remedies exist when power exceeds its legal bounds?
• How do government institutions oversee the exercise of power?
• How does the law structure power?

Guest panelists include Professor Rachel Moran from the University of St. Thomas School of Law, who will speak about uncovering officer identities; Professor Emily Berman from the University of Houston Law Center, who will discuss “the demise of internal separation of powers;” and Professor Osagie Obasogie from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, who will discuss the reconstruction as constitutional authority. The full list of speakers is available on the event page.

All University of Chicago Law School journal symposiums are free and open to the public.