The Rutgers Law Record is presently accepting submissions for an upcoming online symposium intended to address emerging issues in regard to First Amendment Law.

In preparation for our First Amendment online symposium, the Record is accepting submissions on topics including but not limited to free speech and technology, campaign donations as speech, regulation of hate speech, free speech and technology, and the doctrine of managerial prerogative as it has recently been articulated in the Supreme Court’s Garcetti v. Ceballos opinion.

For further information regarding the Rutgers Law Record submission guidelines, please see the Submissions section of this website. Additionally, any inquiries may be directed to the Record staff at lawrecord@gmail.com.

A tentative deadline for submissions to the Record’s First Amendment online symposium has been set at February 20, 2010.

In the Spring of 2010, the Rutgers Law Record will publish an online symposium entitled Emerging Issues in Environmental Law. In connection with this issue, the Record is presently accepting submissions from law students, practitioners, professors, and any other members of the legal community with an academic interest in environmental issues.

In preparation for this online symposium, the Record has thus far accepted a student note discussing the need for swift action to be taken in New Jersey in order to mitigate the damage the state will face as a consequence of sea level rise.  This article considers whether the recent claim brought by the Inuit village of Kivalina, Alaska against several major carbon emitters, including ExxonMobil, would be a viable claim for the state of New Jersey.

For further information regarding the Rutgers Law Record submission guidelines, please see the Submissions section of this website. Additionally, any inquiries may be directed to the Rutgers Law Record staff at lawrecord@gmail.com

Submissions to Emerging Issues in Environmental Law are due by December 15, 2009. Thank you for your interest in the Rutgers Law Record.

This coming Fall 2009, the Rutgers Law Record will publish an online symposium entitled 'Emerging Issues in Criminal Jurisprudence.'

As an introduction to this online symposium, the Law Record has published a new essay by distinguished Professor George C. Thomas III of Rutgers School of Law - Newark. Professor Thomas, widely acknowledged as one of the top scholars in his field, is the author or co-author of four books and more than 60 articles on criminal law and criminal procedure.  This article, which can be found below, discusses the evolution of the doctrine of consent searches both under the United States Constitution and through New Jersey's courts. Professor Thomas's article on consent searches constitutes the first installment of our Emerging Issues in Criminal Jurisprudence symposium.

This Fall 2009 the Law Record will publish its second installment of 'Emerging Issues in Criminal Jurisprudence.' This second installment of the Law Record's online symposium will include a student article entitled "Batson Revisited: Discriminatory Venue Transfer and the Scope of Supreme Court Precedent."  This article examines a recent decision by the 10th Circuit rejecting the argument that Batson v. Kentucky stands for the general proposition that the Equal Protection Clause applies to all stages of a criminal proceeding, including venue transfer.

We are currently soliciting articles for this issue. Please note our requirements on our page entitled "Submissions." Our deadline for this issue is September 15.