Symposium: Union and States' Rights

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The Akron Law Review has published a symposium on "Union and States' Rights: Secession, 150 Years After Sumter." Here's the TOC:

Symposium: Union and States' Rights: Secession, 150 Years After Sumter
Neil H. Cogan 

Still Too Close to Call?  Rethinking Stampp's "The Concept of a Perpetual Union"
Daniel W. Hamilton

Secession and Breach of Compact:  The Law of Nature Meets the United States Constitution
Stephen C. Neff

James Madison and the Constitution's "Convention for Proposing Amendments"
Robert G. Natelson

States' Rights, Southern Hypocrisy, and the Crisis of the Union
Paul Finkelman

The Fourteenth Amendment and the Unconstitutionality of Secession
Daniel A. Farber

Judging in a Vacuum, Or, Once More, Without Feeling:
How Justice Scalia's Jurisprudential Approach Repeats errors Made in Plessy V. Ferguson
Chris Edelson