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Program
2012 Mid-Year Meeting
Date: June 8 — 12, 2012
Location: Claremont Hotel
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Sessions by Program:
» Workshop on When Technology Disrupts Law: How Do IP, Internet and Bio Law Adapt?
» Workshop on Torts, Environment and Disaster

Sessions by Date & Time:

AALS Luncheon

4:00 pm - 8:00 pm
AALS Registration - Workshop on Torts, Environment and Disaster

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
AALS Reception - Workshop on Torts, Environment and Disaster

8:00 pm
Documentary Film - Out of the Ashes: 9/11

8:45 am - 9:00 am
Welcome and Introduction - Workshop on Torts, Environment and Disaster

9:00 am - 9:20 am
History of Disaster

9:20 am - 10:30 am
Psychology of Disaster
Lisa Grow Sun Paper

10:30 am - 10:45 am
Morning Refreshment Break - Workshop on Torts, Environment and Disaster

10:45 am - 12:00 pm
Precautionary Principle: Regulatory and Tort Perspectives
Materials 1

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
AALS Luncheon - Workshop on Torts, Environment and Disaster
Materials 1

1:45 pm - 3:00 pm
Environmental Law Plenary - Climate Change, Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Social Cost of Carbon
Materials 1  l  Materials 2  l  Materials 3

1:45 pm - 3:00 pm
Torts Plenary - Tort Principles in the Context of Disaster

3:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Afternoon Refreshment Break - Workshop on Torts, Environment and Disaster

3:15 pm - 4:15 pm
Environmental Law Plenary - Generations of Environmental Law
Materials 1  l   Matierals 2

3:15 pm - 5:45 pm
Torts Plenary - Principles for Compensation Programs and Mass Settlements: Public and Private

4:15 pm - 5:45 pm
Environemental Law Plenary Discussion

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
AALS Reception - Workshop on Torts, Environment and Disaster

9:00 am - 10:15 am
Environmental Law Plenary - Disaster Prevention
Jim Chen Materials

9:00 am - 10:15 am
Torts Plenary - Interaction of Tort and Insurance Law
Christian Lahnstein materials

10:15 am - 10:30 am
Morning Refreshment Break - Workshop on Torts, Environment and Disaster

10:30 am - 11:30 am
Environmental Plenary - Climate Adaptation
Materials 1

10:30 am - 11:30 am
Torts Plenary - How to Teach Disaster as Part of a Torts Curriculum
Michael L. Rustad materials

11:30 am - 12:15 pm
Torts Small Group Discussions

11:30 am - 12:15 pm
Torts Small Group Discussions

12:15 pm - 1:45 pm
AALS Luncheon - Workshop on Torts, Environment and Disaster

2:00 pm - 3:15 pm
Disaster Federalism

2:00pm - 2:30pm
Keynote: User Innovation as a Challenge to Intellectual Property Paradigms

2:30pm - 3:45pm
Open innovation Panel

3:15 pm - 3:30 pm
Afternoon Refreshment Break - Workshop on Torts, Environment and Disaster

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Disaster Justice: The Advocacy of Redress
Alice Kaswan Materials

3:45pm - 4:00pm
Refreshment Break

4:00pm - 5:15pm
Commercializing Open Innovations

4:00pm - 5:15pm
Concurrent Sessions

4:00pm - 5:15pm
Open Biology

4:00pm - 5:15pm
Social Networks and Privacy

4:00pm - 5:15pm
User-Generated Content on Social Networks and Other Collaborative Websites

6:00pm - 8:00pm
AALS Reception

9:00am - 10:15am
Updating the Regulatory Infrastructure: Domestic Regulatory
Christopher M. Holman materials

10:15am - 10:30am
Break

10:30 am - 12:00pm
Challenges of Updating International Regulatory Infrastructure

2:00pm - 3:15pm
Clinical Education

2:00pm - 3:15pm
Concurrent Sessions: Pedagogy

2:00pm - 3:15pm
Teaching Biotech

2:00pm - 3:15pm
Teaching Cyber Law

2:00pm - 3:15pm
Teaching with Digital Technology

3:15pm - 3:30pm
Break

3:30pm - 5:00pm
Gene Patenting Debate

5:15pm - 7:00pm
AALS Reception

9:00am - 10:15am
Conversation with Senior Women in the Intellectual Property Field

10:30am - 12:00pm
Behavioral Economics

10:30am - 12:00pm
Concurrent Sessions: Influences from Other Fields

10:30am - 12:00pm
Experimental

10:30am - 12:00pm
Neuroscience/Cognitive Psychology/Marketing Behavior

10:30am - 12:00pm
New Institutional Economics

2:00pm - 3:15pm
Big Data/Evolutionary/Genomics

3:15pm - 3:30pm
Break

3:30pm - 5:00pm
Technology as Policy