The DePaul Law Review has issued a call for papers for its Spring 2024 symposium:
The DePaul Law Review will devote the third issue of its 73rd volume (slated for publication in Spring 2024) to a Symposium addressing the Emmy-winning scripted drama Succession from a legal and pedagogical point of view. The aim of this special issue is to collect in one place the insights of a variety of faculty members with different legal subject-matter expertise, as a resource for all who are interested in the use of this award-winning work for the teaching, practice, and study of law. The DePaul Law Review has already secured the participation of a number of distinguished scholars.
The DePaul Law Review invites proposals from others for two to four additional contributions to be included in this special issue. Proposals for a contribution of between 5,000 and 10,000 words are welcome from all who teach any area of law. (The print symposium will be accompanied by simultaneous online publication with live hyperlinks, allowing readers to access video links if the author desires).
Potential contributions to the special issue might take a variety of forms. For example, these essays might:
- explore the legal implications of various plotlines through a variety of doctrinal lenses (e.g., mergers and acquisitions, wills and trusts, corporate law, employment law, criminal law);
- share classroom techniques for using Succession, and its scenarios or characters, in law teaching;
- consider how matters such as race, gender, sexual orientation, and class are represented on Succession, or how the show depicts law, law enforcement, and lawyer; or
- draw on literary techniques to illuminate (or critique) Succession's approach to the myriad legal issues it presents.
Interested individuals should send an abstract outlining the topic and substance of their proposed contribution to the DePaul Law Review by email to Lizzie Carroll, Managing Editor of Lead Articles, or to Susan Bandes or Diane Klein. Abstracts (of 250 words at most) should be submitted by April 30, 2023. Proposals will be reviewed and invitations will be issued by June 1, 2023. Those invited to participate will be required to submit initial drafts by August 15, 2023, and final drafts ready for editing by the DePaul Law Review staff of student editors by October 1, 2023.
