The Indiana Law Journal today announced its new electronic journal, the Indiana Law Journal Supplement.  The Journal also expanded the editorial offerings of both the print and electronic editions with its accompanying new Web site at www.indianalawjournal.org.  The changes include broader and more timely coverage of legal issues, enhanced site navigation and search capabilities, accelerated publication schedules, and additional exposure for the Journal's authors.  Journal staff are working to post both full HTML and PDF versions of articles in past volumes.

The Journal will publish a formal introduction to the Supplement and its new Web site in both Issue 1 of Volume 83 and the Supplement.  The Journal's recommended citation for the Supplement is Ind. L.J. Supp.  The Supplement will consecutively paginate each electronic volume.

Symposium to be Presented at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting
January 5th, 2007 at 3:30 p.m., Washington, D.C.

The Indiana Law Journal will publish papers from the Conflict of Laws Section of the Association of American Law Schools on the issue of Recognition of Same-Sex Marriage: Conflicts Law and Public Policy in a Globalizing Society. The panel will examine the conflict of laws relevant to same-sex marriage. The speakers will address some questions of U.S. law triggered by recent developments: for instance, have Lawrence and Romer redrawn the constitutional limits on a state's right to deny recognition of a same-sex marriage celebrated elsewhere? Can traditional conflicts techniques adequately address the various substantive issues, such as succession rights and custody rights, that are folded into the conflict over recognition of marriage? More generally, the panelists will use the issue of same-sex marriage as a window onto some broader questions regarding the role of conflicts law in resolving policy differences within a globalizing society. They will address topics such as the following: what limits does existence within a union-for instance, the U.S. federal system or the European Union-place on the right of an individual governmental unit to assert local public policy in denying recognition to the acts of another unit? Is a distinction between interstate and international public policy still viable? Are state and national choice of law regimes successful in reconciling the imperatives of globalization-including the increased mobility of persons and the recognition of certain rights to freedom of movement-with the often countervailing pressure to protect local cultural priorities? Will those divergent regimes eventually give way to multilateral choice of law treaties? To harmonized substantive law? The panel will be moderated by Professor Hannah Buxbaum (Indiana University School of Law), and the speakers will be Dean Larry Kramer (Stanford Law School), Professor Peter Hay (Emory Law School), Professor Tobias Wolff (UC Davis School of Law), and Professor Katharina Boele-Woelki (University of Utrecht, The Netherlands).