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The 2022 Wisconsin Law Review Symposium–controlling the Supreme Court “far into the future”

By Bruce Ledewitz

Eric Segall and I won the competition this year to host the Wisconsin Law Review Symposium, to be entitled Controlling the Supreme Court : Now and “far into the future.” My opening address asks, is there a future for American Law? I explain in my Capital-Star column.

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