Continuing its mission of "Advancing Gaming Law through Education", the IMGL held its second successful gaming law symposium, co-sponsored by the University of Mississippi Law School. The symposium was held on the campus of Ole Miss in Oxford , Mississippi .  With the assistance of Dean Samuel Davis, and Assistant Dean and IMGL member Ron Rychlak, the one day conference highlighted academic and industry issues facing the gaming industry.  Unlike typical gaming conferences, the purpose of a law symposium is to work with an academic institution contribute to a growing body of written legal materials centered on gaming law issues. This conference was conducted in connection with the Ole Miss Law Journal, lead by Darrell Tucker, its Editor in Chief. The Law Journal will publish a issue in late 2004 devoted to gaming law.

 This is the second Law Journal on gaming law issued produced from an IMGL co-sponsored conference, the first issue resulted from a law symposium held at the Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in fall 2003.  Along with the symposium issue from Chapman Law School in 2002, in which five IMGL contributed articles, the number of law review issues devoted to gaming in the past three years has doubled the total of all volumes produced since casino gaming was legalized in 1931.

 Delegates from four continents were welcomed to the Ole Miss Symposium by the wit and wisdom of Mississippi Gaming Commission Chairman Leo Blackwell and Former Mississippi Gaming Commission Executive Director Paul Harvey.  Topics for the sessions included Interactive Wagering, Casino Crimes, Advantage Play, Advance Account Wagering and Gaming Devices on Native American Lands.

 A highlight of the conference was a luncheon to honor the members of the National Indian Gaming Commission as Regulators of the Year.  The NIGC members were introduced by IMGL member and Iowa Gaming Commission Executive Director Jack Ketterer.  A feature article on the NIGC will appear in Global Gaming Business Magazine in December 2004.

 On the Saturday after the conference, the IMGL members were able to experience a unique American experience by attending the Ole Miss Football game.
A standing tradition at Ole Miss is the pre and post game "Party in the Grove," the largest happening of its type anywhere. The IMGL members were hosted by IMGL member and Ole Miss Alumni Britt Singletary, who brought, among other things, a plentiful supply of shrimp from the Gulf Coast.