Since 1994, the Browning Symposium Series has addressed issues of national importance and enabled the Montana Law Review to present outstanding scholars to the Montana legal community. As its namesake indicates, the Browning Symposium Series honors the Honorable James R. Browning, formerly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Judge Browning, who passed away in May of 2012, was a member of the first editorial board of the Montana Law Review and ultimately served as Editor-in-Chief. He served with distinction for over 50 years on the Ninth Circuit, many of which he spent as its Chief Judge. The Symposium Series was made possible by a generous gift from John G. Hursh in 1994.

Past Browning Symposiums:

2018 Symposium on Indian Law: "The Future of Federal Indian Law and the (New) Roberts Court"

2016 Symposium on Campus Sexual Assault: "Sexual Assault on Campus: Conflicts Between Campus and Courts"

2014 Symposium on Federalism: "The Future of Federalism: What Will Be Retained, And What Surrendered?"

2012 Symposium on Election Law: "The State of the Republican Form of Government in the States"

2010 Symposium on the Montana Constitution

2009 Symposium on Rural Law

2006 Symposium on the Right of Privacy

2005 Symposium on Children and the Law

2002 Symposium on the 1972 Montana Constitution: 30 Years Later

1999 Symposium on Cyber Law

1997 Symposium on Tribal Sovereignty

1996 Symposium on the Second Amendment and Other Federal Constitutional Rights of the Private Militia

1995 Symposium on the Proposal to Split the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

1994 Symposium on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act