Symposium
Law Review Symposium 2022
Room V

Labor market power is a hotly debated issue that has garnered increasing scholarly attention in legal academia. With market power comes questions of regulation. This Symposium will explore how law can address and regulate the labor market to respond to its failures. The Law Review will bring together perspectives from law, economics, history, and sociology. Scholars will engage with antitrust enforcement, unionization, and other means of workplace regulation.

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Symposium
This Violent City?
Virtual

The University of Chicago Law Review convened of the nation’s leading scholars on May 7 for a virtual symposium aimed at examining the causes of urban violence. The event showcased a diverse range of empirical, theoretical, and legal perspectives and confronted questions related to concentrated poverty, policing and incarceration, community initiatives, and more. Many of the papers focused on policing and violence in Chicago.

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Response
What’s Different about Law?
Gillian K. Hadfield
Professor of Law and Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Toronto
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Response
Working for the Weekend: A Response to Kessler & Pozen
Charles Barzun
Armistead M. Dobie Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law

I thank Professors Jeremy Kessler and David Pozen for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this Response. I have made substantial revisions as a result of them, though I suspect the authors will continue to think that I have misunderstood their central claims and motivations.

I. The Life-Cycle Theory