Annual Symposium

Since 2002, the Center has offered an annual symposium on search and seizure. Each symposium is free and open to the public. It is also webcast and a link is posted on this website to view it live. The topic changes each year. The symposium attracts as speakers many of the country's foremost experts on search and seizure. Each symposium is published by the Mississippi Law Journal. All of the articles and recorded lectures from the symposia are collected here on the Center’s website. You may download a PDF version of each article or view the actual lecture that formed the basis of the article.

The 2009 symposium is on February 13, 2009 is entitled: “Great Dissents in Fourth Amendment Cases.” Five dissents will be examined, including such seminal dissents as Justice Harlan's dissent in United States v. White, 401 U.S. 745 (1971), Justice Marshall’s dissent in Schneckloth v. Bustamonte, 412 U.S. 218 (1973), Justice O’Connor’s dissent in Atwater v. Lago Vista, 532 U.S. 318 (2001), Justice Brandeis’ dissent in Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928). Expected speakers are: Professor Paul Butler of The George Washington University Law School, Professor Catherine Hancock of Tulane University School of Law, Professor Arnold H. Loewy of Texas Tech University School of Law, Professor Wayne A. Logan of Florida State University College of Law, and Professor Carol S. Steiker of Harvard Law School.

 

2010 Symposium - "The Fourth Amendment Rights of Children and Juveniles"

2009 Symposium - "Great Dissents in Fourth Amendment Cases", 79 Miss L.J. __ (2009)

2008 Symposium - "The Fourth Amendment at the International Border", 78 Miss. L.J.1 (2008)

2007 Symposium - “Independent State Grounds: Should State Courts Depart from the Fourth Amendment in Construing Their Own Constitutions, and if so, on What Basis Beyond Simple Disagreement with the U.S. Supreme Court’s Result?”, 77 Miss. L.J. 1 (2007)

2006 Symposium - "Programmatic Purpose, Subjective Intent, and Objective Intent:
What is the Proper Role of "Purpose" Analysis to Measure the Reasonableness
of a Search or Seizure?", 76 Miss. L.J. 1 (2006)

2005 Symposium - "The Search and Seizure of Computers and Obtaining Electronic Evidence", 75 Miss. L.J.1 (2005)

2004 Symposium - "The Tools to Interpret the Fourth Amendment", 74 Miss L. J. 273 (2004)

2003 Symposium - "The Permissibility of Race or Ethnicity as a Factor in Assessing
the Reasonableness of a Search or Seizure", 73 Miss. L.J. 365 (2003)

2002 Symposium - "The Effect of Technology on Fourth Amendment Analysis and Individual Rights", 72 Miss. L.J. 1 (2003)

 

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