All are cordially invited to the Spring 2026 Chicago-Kent Law Review Symposium, “Power, Governance, and Contemporary Finance.” The symposium will be held Friday, February 20, 2026, at 10 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. over Zoom. The symposium is free. For more information and to register, please visit the Law Review website.

This symposium examines how law structures power, wealth creation, and accountability in modern financial markets. Rather than treating markets as neutral sites of exchange, the contributions interrogate the legal, institutional, and political arrangements that determine who captures value, who bears risk, and whose interests are prioritized when market norms collide with democratic governance and the rule of law. Across securities regulation, corporate governance, venture finance, and accounting and audit regimes, the symposium foregrounds law’s constitutive role in shaping financial capitalism itself. Taken together, these scholars reveal finance as a contested governance project rather than a technical domain, raising urgent questions about institutional design, democratic legitimacy, and the capacity of law to discipline markets that increasingly shape social and political life. By situating contemporary financial practices within broader debates about power, ideology, and institutional integrity, the symposium aims to advance a richer account of how law can—and should—respond to the realities of twenty-first-century capitalism.