Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy will be the keynote speaker at the GW Law Review Symposium, Law School Dean Frederick Lawrence announced on Monday.

The symposium will begin Thursday, Oct. 15 and is traditionally a two-day event with several speakers and discussion panels. Kennedy, 73, was appointed to the Court by Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1988.

Last year’s speakers included law professors from GW, Cornell University and the University of Toronto. The symposium also hosted a Supreme Court Justice in 2005, when Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivered remarks about the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

Registration is required through the GW Law School but online registration is not yet open for the 2009 conference, Lawrence said.