Invitation

Join us for the North Carolina Law Review Volume 105 Symposium: AI and Constitutional Values.

Date: Friday, October 9, 2026
Time: 8:00AM to 4:00PM
Location: The Carolina Inn, 211 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC 27516
RSVP: https://forms.gle/nclrsymposiumrsvp

The North Carolina Law Review Volume 105 Symposium: AI and Constitutional Values will bring together leading constitutional law and First Amendment scholars to examine how generative AI is reshaping longstanding questions about governmental power, surveillance, speech, democratic self-government, and the boundaries of constitutional protection.

Tentative Schedule

Arrival/Breakfast (8:00–9:00AM)

Dean’s Welcome (9:00–9:15AM)
Andy Hessick, Dean, UNC School of Law

Editor-in-Chief & UNC Faculty Representative Welcome (9:15-9:30)
Joseph Kennedy, UNC Faculty Representative for 2026 Symposium Kyle Hurysz, Editor-in-Chief, North Carolina Law Review, Vol. 105

Panel 1: Power & Constitutional Liberty in the Age of AI (9:30–11:00AM)
Professor Margaret Hu, Davison Douglas Professor of Law, William & Mary School of Law
Professor Joseph Kennedy, Willie Person Mangum Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina School of Law

Break (11:00–11:15AM)

Panel 2: AI, Speech, and Democratic Self-Government (11:45AM–12:45PM)
Professor Francesca L. Procaccini, Associate Professor of Robert S. and Theresa L. Ryder Faculty Fellow, Vanderbilt University School of Law
David S. Han, Associate Dean for Faculty and Research Professor of Law, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law

Lunch and Keynote (12:45–2:00PM) Keynote by Professor Alexander Tsesis, Chair of the 2026 North Carolina Law Review Symposium, D’Alemberte Distinguished Chair in Constitutional Law, Florida State University College of Law

Panel 3: Who—or What—Speaks? AI and the First Amendment (2:00PM–3:00PM)
Professor Adam Samaha, Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties, New York University School of Law
Professor Carolina Male Corbin, Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law

Closing and Optional Roundtable (3:30–4:30PM)

Please contact the Symposium Editors, Katie Lazar and Richard Whitfield, at nclrev_symposium@unc.edu with any questions.