Past JPLP Symposia

The Journal of Public Law and Policy regularly facilitates discussion around critical policy issues through symposia covering topics such as:

• The Death Penalty Debate in America: Effectiveness, Fairness, Constitutionality, and Other Considerations
• The Civil Rights Act: 50 Years of Success, Development, and Transformation
• Minority Rights and Majority Rule: The Arguments and Policies Behind the Proposed 2012 Minnesota Constitutional Amendments and the Danger or Myth of the Tyrannical Majority
• The Policy of Collaborative Governance, Citizen Participation, and Innovation and Redesign in Minnesota PDF
• Sourcing Food: Finding Common Ground in an Age of Agricultural Competition and Conglomeration PDF
• Opening Our Eyes to Health Disparities: A Look Through the Lens of Critical Race Theory PDF | Speakers/Moderators PDF
• Barriers to Justice: Responding to the Needs of America’s Low-Income Population
• The Declaration of Human Rights: A Reality Check PDF
• Health Care Reform
• Children and the Law