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2025 Legal Forum Symposium: Authority, Oversight, and Accountability

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Add to Calendar 2025-11-07 08:30:00 2025-11-07 17:00:00 2025 Legal Forum Symposium: Authority, Oversight, and Accountability Event details: https://www.law.uchicago.edu/events/2025-legal-forum-symposium - University of Chicago Law School blog@law.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public —
Room V
1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637
Open to the public

Recent exercises of executive power have placed increasing pressure on traditional legal frameworks, revealing that many restraints long assumed settled have merely gone untested. This moment invites a comprehensive examination of restraints and remedies across various legal domains. There is no more appropriate time than now to interrogate the safeguards that law provides to empower good actors, guide marginal actors, and restrain bad actors. We invite you to consider these questions at the University of Chicago Legal Forum’s Volume 2025 Symposium, Authority, Oversight, and Accountability.

Schedule of Events

  • Friday, November 7
    • Opening Remarks
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        • Dean Adam Chilton
        • Olivia Libonati, Editor-in-Chief, University of Chicago Legal Forum
        • Julia Schreder, Symposium & Membership Editor, University of Chicago Legal Forum
    • PANEL I: Oversight: How Do Private Actors Oversee the Exercise of Power?
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        • Moderator: Richard McAdams, Bernard D. Meltzer Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
        • Uncovering Officer Identities
          Rachel Moran, University of St. Thomas School of Law
        • Prosecutorial vs Private Discretion in the False Claims Act
          David Kwok, University of Houston Law Center
    • PANEL II: Accountability: What Remedies Exist When Power Exceeds Its Legal Bounds?
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        • Moderator: Samuel Bray, Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
        • Realizing the Promise of Police Consent Decrees
          Joanna Schwartz, UCLA School of Law & Christy Lopez, Georgetown Law
        • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Policies: Can States Limit Trump’s War Against Equality?
          Ruqaiijah Yearby, Temple University Beasley School of Law
        • The Demise of Internal Separation of Powers
          Emily Berman, University of Houston Law Center
    • KEYNOTE ADDRESS
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        • Cleaning Up a Royal Mess: From Watchdogs to Lapdogs to What Comes Next
          Hampton Dellinger, Former Special Counsel of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel
    • PANEL III: Oversight: How Do Government Institutions Oversee the Exercise of Power?
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        • Moderator: Jennifer Nou, Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Professor of Law. University of Chicago Law School
        • Privacy and Democracy’s Destruction
          Danielle Citron, University of Virginia School of Law & Ari Waldman, UC Irvine School of Law
        • The Conservative Case for a Professionalized Civil Service
          Christopher Walker, University of Michigan Law School
        • Decentralization Puzzles in New Financial Markets
          Yesha Yadav, Vanderbilt Law School
    • PANEL IV: Authority: How Does the Law Structure Power?
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        • Moderator: David Strauss, Gerald Ratner Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
        • The Espionage Act and America’s Dangerously Unleashed President
          Heidi Kitrosser, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
        • Making an American Monarch: The Growth of Emergency Presidential Power and the Meaning of Constitutional Failure
          Chris Edelson, American University
        • Reconstruction As Constitutional Authority
          Osagie Obasogie, University of California, Berkeley Schoool of Law
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