Introduction: Infringement Nation: Copyright Reform and the Law/Norm Gap

In recent years, legislators, judges, and practicing attorneys have critiqued law reviews for their excessively theoretical bent, arguing that their contents have become increasingly devoid of any real-world value. At the risk of alienating my academic colleagues and shocking the members of the copyright bar, I would like to think that this symposium is different. By bringing together a group of leading copyright scholars, including Tom Bell, Dan Burk, Wendy Gordon, Justin Hughes, Peter Jaszi, Bobbi Kwall, David Nimmer, Pam Samuelson, and Rebecca Tushnet, to contemplate the issue of legal reform in practical terms, this symposium strives to foster a dialogue that could impact future revisions at a concrete level. It is a first step in what will hopefully become a broader debate over copyright reform.