[4] Recent symposia topics have included "Education Reform and Governance,"[5] "A 2020 View of Urban Infrastructure,"[6] and a "Symposium on Fair Housing Testing.

[9] The journal also publishes committee reports written by the American Bar Association Section of State and Local Government Law.

[10] Additionally, the journal publishes "case notes" that summarize recent significant court decisions pertaining to urban law as well as book reviews of recently published books about urban legal issues.

[30] The American Bar Association also publishes recent articles from the journal on the Section of State and Local Government Law's website.

[33] This compendium reprints reports on the subject of land use law that were originally published in The Urban Lawyer.

[34] To accomplish this goal, section leaders decided to publish a collection of committee reports in book form, and the first edition of At the Cutting Edge was released in 2009.