Every spring since 1999, Fowler School of Law's Chapman Law Review has hosted its annual Law Review Symposium. Topics are selected to challenge participants to confront pressing legal issues from a variety of perspectives. Panelists have included distinguished scholars, judges and practitioners.

2025 Symposium

Friday, January 31, 2025

Keynote Speaker: Erin L. Thompson, Professor Of Art Crime, John Jay College (CUNY)

Erin L. Thompson holds a PhD in classical art history and a JD, both from Columbia University, along with a certificate in Global Business Law from the Institut d’Études Politiques and Paris I (Sorbonne). After working as a lawyer for Hogan Lovells and the Conflicts of Interest Board of the City of New York, she is now a professor of art crime at John Jay College (City University of New York).

Thompson studies the damage done to cultural heritage and communities through looting, theft, and deliberate destruction of cultural heritage (as well as its deliberate preservation). She is the author of Possession: The Curious History of Private Collectors and Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of American Monuments. She is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Nepal Heritage Recovery Campaign and has assisted authorities, activists, and collectors in numerous repatriation cases in the United States and abroad.