Chapman Law Review is ecstatic to announce that its 2026 Symposium will take place on Friday, February 6, 2026, from 9 am to 4 pm in Kennedy Hall at Chapman University. Book your tickets here. Admission is free, but booking is essential.

The 2026 Chapman Law Review Symposium, Data Flow Frontiers: Privacy, Policy & Practice, focuses on one of the most important questions in modern privacy law: How personal data moves, who directs that movement and what rules determine the path it takes. In a world where information constantly shifts between users, platforms, advertisers and governments, understanding and regulating data flows has become essential to protecting individual rights and maintaining public trust.

Examining the data journey, from initial collection to downstream sharing and reuse, panelists will explore how information travels through interconnected systems; how platforms and third parties extract value from continuous, often opaque transfers and how technological tools such as artificial intelligence accelerate the speed and reach of these flows. A central theme is the growing difficulty individuals face in knowing where their data goes and how much control they truly have once it leaves their hands.