Iowa Law Review

12/20/2022

Like so many others, Iowa Law Review was sad to learn of the recent passing of President Emeritus Willard "Sandy" Boyd. Boyd served as the University of Iowa's 15th president from 1969 to 1981, returned as a law professor in 1996, and served as interim president from 2002-2003. The Boyd Law Building opened in 1986 in his honor. Additionally, we are honored to have published several of President Boyd's Articles throughout the years, including most recently, Iowa Law Review Centennial: Its Mission, History, and Future, co-authored with Randall P. Bezanson in 2015.

President Boyd's contributions and impact on The University of Iowa College of Law will forever be remembered. We are so grateful for his years of positive impact on our journal and greater community.

You can read his most recent publication with ILR here: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/print/volume-100-issue-2/iowa-law-review-centennial-its-mission-history-and-future/

12/11/2022

Our Senior Managing Editor, Paige Roff, recently argued in the Seventh Circuit as a Law Student Practitioner through The University of Iowa College of Law’s Federal Criminal Defense Clinic. We’re so proud of her impressive advocacy on behalf of her client and Iowa Law! ⚖️

12/08/2022

⚖️ Huge congrats to all of our Student Writers who completed Appellate Advocacy I but a special shoutout to these four! We are so proud that the top three advocates overall this year were ALL Iowa Law Review Student Writers (Steele, Kameron, and Spencer). Additionally, two of the Top Briefs were written by Steele and Aly! 👏🎉
[Pictured from left to right is Aly Rameshk, Spencer Culver, Kameron Reed, and Steele Kowalczyk.]

11/23/2022

⚖️✍️Check out our latest Iowa Law Review Online piece, “Legacy and Accountability,” by Dean Ian Ayres. This piece “considers the ways that the law can help or hinder the accountability of actors and institutions. It draws two implications from the failure of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to retire at a time that would have better secured the constitutional right to abortion.” This timely Essay can be accessed here: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/online/volume-108/legacy-and-accountability/

11/23/2022

Celebrating the 2022 Law Alumni Awards recipients

Celebrating the 2022 Law Alumni Awards recipients

Iowa Law launched the alumni awards program to recognize alumni who have made significant achievements in their careers and in their service to the College of Law. This year's recipients are...

11/22/2022

📖📚Check out our latest Iowa Law Review Online piece responding to a Print piece published in Vol 106, Issue 3. This Response is written by The University of Iowa College of Law’s very own Professor Robert T. Miller and can be accessed here: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/online/volume-107/market-practices-and-the-awarenessuse-problem-in-insider-trading-law-a-response-to-professor-versteins-mixed-motives-insider-trading/

11/10/2022

🎉 Volume 108, Issue 1 is available now! This issue features six scholarly Articles and five Student Notes. ✍️

Swipe through the images to learn more about these recently published Student Notes and follow this link to read the full pieces: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/print/volume-108-issue-1

11/09/2022

🎉 Volume 108, Issue 1 is available now! This issue features six scholarly Articles and five Student Notes. ✍️

Swipe through the images to learn more about these recently published Articles and follow this link to read the full pieces: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/print/volume-108-issue-1

11/03/2022

We are saddened to learn of Professor Dmitry Karshtedt’s passing. We were lucky to publish his scholarship in Volumes 104 and 106 of the Iowa Law Review, including The More Things Change: Improvement Patents, Drug Modifications, and the FDA (https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/print/volume-104-issue-3/the-more-things-change-improvement-patents-drug-modifications-and-the-fda/) and Nonobviousness: Before and After (https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/print/volume-106-issue-4/nonobviousness-before-and-after/).

10/14/2022

It’s not too late to join us! Iowa Law Review is hosting our Vol. 108 Symposium “The Future of Relgious Freedom” TOMORROW, Oct. 14th, at Boyd Law Building! Register to attend any (or all!) events at the link (https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/symposia/upcoming-symposium/) or join us on Zoom (no registration required). Can’t wait to see you there and hear from legal experts coming to Iowa City from all over the country! ⚖️

10/13/2022

We are honored to introduce the third panel of our Vol. 108 Symposium “The Future of Religious Freedom” titled “Religious Freedom Through the Lenses of Legal Theories.” This panel will feature Professors Paul Gowder, Elizabeth Sepper, James D. Nelson, & Nelson Tebbe. Please register at the link below to join us in person (Room 225 from 2:50-4:00 PM this Friday, 10/14) or join us on Zoom (no registration required).

To read more about our Panel I speakers and to register for our October 14th Symposium, follow this link: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/symposia/upcoming-symposium/

10/13/2022

We are thrilled to introduce the second panel of our Vol. 108 Symposium “The Future of Religious Freedom” titled “Doctrine & Procedure as Mechanisms to Shift Social & Political Issues.” This panel will feature Professors Micah Schwartzman, B. Jessie Hill, & Andrew Koppelman. Please register at the link below to join us in person (Room 225 from 10:30-11:50 AM this Friday, 10/14) or join us on Zoom (no registration required).

To read more about our Panel I speakers and to register for our October 14th Symposium, follow this link: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/symposia/upcoming-symposium/

10/12/2022

We are so excited to introduce the first panel of our Vol. 108 Symposium “The Future of Religious Freedom” titled “Doctrinal Questions & Supreme Court Decisions.” This panel will feature Professors Stephanie Barclay, Nathan S. Chapman, Michael A. Helfand, & Christopher C. Lund. Please register at the link below to join us in person (Room 225 from 9:00-10:20 AM this Friday, 10/14) or join us on Zoom (no registration required).
To read more about our Panel I speakers and to register for our October 14th Symposium, follow this link: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/symposia/upcoming-symposium/

10/11/2022

Iowa Law Review is so excited to announce that our final featured speaker for our upcoming October 14th Symposium “The Future of Religious Freedom” is Nathan S. Chapman!

Professor Chapman is the Pope F. Brock Associate Professor of Professional Responsibility. His scholarship focuses on the historical and theoretical underpinnings of constitutional law, especially the law of religious liberty and due process. He is the author, with Michael W. McConnell, of a forthcoming volume from the Oxford University Press titled Agreeing to Disagree: How the Establishment Clause Promotes Religious Pluralism and Protects Freedom of Conscience.

To read more about Professor Chapman’s impressive career and to register for our October 14th Symposium, follow this link: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/symposia/upcoming-symposium/

10/10/2022

Iowa Law Review is honored to share that Stephanie Barclay will be a featured speaker at our upcoming October 14th Symposium: The Future of Religious Freedom! Professor Barclay is a Nootbaar Fellow at the Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics at Pepperdine University, and a Faculty Affiliate at the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School. She also directs Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative, which involves promoting religious liberty scholarship, hosting events for thought leaders in this space, and launching a new Religious Liberty Clinic. Professor Barclay recently completed a clerkship on the United States Supreme Court, and she is currently pursuing a DPhil in Law at Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar and a Tang Scholar.

To learn more about Professor Barclay's impressive career and to register for our Symposium, please visit: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/symposia/upcoming-symposium/.

10/09/2022

Iowa Law Review is thrilled to share that James Nelson will be a featured speaker at our upcoming October 14th Symposium: The Future of Religious Freedom! He is the Vinson & Elkins Professor at the University of Houston Law Center. He also holds an appointment at the C. T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston. His recent work on corporate law, governance, and rights has been published in the Columbia Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the Vanderbilt Law Review, and the Harvard Business Law Review.

To learn more about Professor Nelson's impressive career and to register for our Symposium, please visit: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/symposia/upcoming-symposium/.

10/09/2022

Iowa Law Review is delighted to share that Micah Schwartzman will be a featured speaker at our upcoming October 14th Symposium: The Future of Religious Freedom! He is the Hardy Cross Dillard Professor of Law and director of the Karsh Center for Law and Democracy at the University of Virginia School of Law. Professor Schwartzman received his doctorate in politics from the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Additionally, he co-edited The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty (Oxford University Press) and has had his work appear in a variety of legal publications and has published commentary in many non-legal outlets.

To learn more about Professor Schwartzman's impressive career and to register for our Symposium, please visit: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/symposia/upcoming-symposium/.

10/07/2022

Iowa Law Review is excited to share that Andrew Koppelman will be a featured speaker at our upcoming October 14th Symposium: The Future of Religious Freedom! He is John Paul Stevens Professor of Law, Professor (by courtesy) of Political Science, and Philosophy Department Affiliated Faculty at Northwestern University. Professor Koppelman has received the Walder Award for Research Excellence from Northwestern, the Hart-Dworkin award in legal philosophy from the Association of American Law Schools, and the Edward S. Corwin Prize from the American Political Science Association. He has published over 100 scholarly articles and eight books.

To learn more about Professor Koppelman's impressive career and to register for our Symposium, please visit: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/symposia/upcoming-symposium/.

10/05/2022

Iowa Law Review is honored to share that Jessie Hill will be a featured speaker at our upcoming October 14th Symposium: The Future of Religious Freedom! She is the Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and Judge Ben C. Green Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Prior to teaching, Professor Hill worked at the Reproductive Freedom Project of the national ACLU office in New York, litigating challenges to state-law restrictions on reproductive rights, and then practiced First Amendment and civil rights law with a small law firm in Cleveland.

To learn more about Dean Hill's impressive career and to register for our Symposium, please visit: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/symposia/upcoming-symposium/.

10/04/2022

Iowa Law Review is thrilled to share that Michael Helfand will be a featured speaker at our upcoming October 14th Symposium: The Future of Religious Freedom! He is the Brenden Mann Foundation Chair in Law and Religion and Co-director of the Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute for Law, Religion and Ethics at Pepperdine Caruso School of Law. Additionally, Professor Helfand serves as Visiting Professor and Oscar M. Ruebhausen Distinguished Fellow at Yale Law School. Professor Helfand often provides commentary on clashes between law and religion, and his work has been published across legal and non-legal outlets.

To learn more about Professor Helfand's impressive career and to register for our Symposium, please visit: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/symposia/upcoming-symposium/.

10/03/2022

Iowa Law Review is delighted to share that Nelson Tebbe will be a featured speaker at our upcoming October 14th Symposium: The Future of Religious Freedom! He is the Jane M.G. Foster Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, the author of Religious Freedom In An Egalitarian Age (Harvard University Press, 2017), and has had his work published in top legal journals across the country, as well as in various other outlets, such as The New York Times. Professor Tebbe is co-organizer of the Annual Law and Religion Roundtable and a member of the executive committee of the AALS Section on Law and Religion.

To learn more about Professor Tebbe's impressive career and to register for our Symposium, please visit: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/symposia/upcoming-symposium/.

10/02/2022

Iowa Law Review is thrilled to share that Elizabeth Sepper will be a featured speaker at our upcoming October 14th Symposium: The Future of Religious Freedom! She is a Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin, and is a nationally recognized scholar of health law, religious liberty, and equality. She has written extensively on conscientious refusals to provide reproductive and end-of-life healthcare and on conflicts over religion and insurance coverage and her work has been published in top legal journals across the country. After law school, Professor Sepper clerked for the Hon. Marjorie Rendell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, practiced human rights law with a focus on women’s rights, and was a Center for Reproductive Rights fellow at Columbia Law School.

To learn more about Professor Sepper's impressive career and to register for our Symposium, please visit: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/symposia/upcoming-symposium/.

10/01/2022

Iowa Law Review is honored to share that Paul Gowder will be a featured speaker at our upcoming October 14th Symposium: The Future of Religious Freedom! He is a Professor of Law at Northwestern University's Pritzker School of Law, and the author of The Rule of Law in the Real World (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and The Rule of Law in the United States: An Unfinished Project of Black Liberation (Hart/Bloomsbury 2021). Professor Gowder has taught a variety of courses and previously was a legal aid and civil rights lawyer, where he represented victims of police misconduct, predatory lending, employment discrimination, unlawful eviction, domestic violence, and numerous other injustices.

To learn more about Professor Gowder's impressive career and to register for our Symposium, please visit: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/symposia/upcoming-symposium/.

09/30/2022

Iowa Law Review is excited to share that Sherif Girgis will be a featured speaker at our upcoming October 14th Symposium: The Future of Religious Freedom! He is a Professor of Law at Notre Dame Law School and previously worked at Jones Day in Washington, D.C., where he focused on appellate and complex civil litigation. Before that, Professor Girgis served as a law clerk to Justice Samuel Alito, Jr., of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Thomas B. Griffith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He has been extensively published in legal and non-legal outlets alike.

To learn more about Professor Girgis' impressive career and to register for our Symposium, please visit: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/symposia/upcoming-symposium/.

09/27/2022

Iowa Law Review is excited to share that Christopher C. Lund will be a featured speaker at our upcoming October 14th Symposium: The Future of Religious Freedom! He is a professor of law at Wayne State University Law School, where he teaches a variety of courses. Professor Lund has been voted Professor of the Year eight times, is widely published, and has had his academic work cited extensively by courts and commentators, including by Justices Alito, Ginsburg, and Breyer. He has served as chair of the Section on Constitutional Law of the Association of American Law Schools, as well as chair of the Section on Law and Religion and the Section on New Law Professors.

To learn more about Professor Lund's impressive career and to register for our Symposium, please visit: https://ilr.law.uiowa.edu/symposia/upcoming-symposium/.