Sessions Information

  • June 9, 2012
    1:45 pm - 3:00 pm
    Session Type: AALS Programs
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    The debate over cost-benefit analysis in the environmental, health, and safety arena takes on special significance in the context of climate change.  With the recent formulation by the Obama Administration of an official “social cost of carbon,” agencies will be required to quantify the benefits of regulatory proposals to abate greenhouse gas emissions or otherwise address the causes and consequences of climate change.  Yet even defenders of the cost-benefit methodology have noted its limitations in the face of a vastly complex and geographically and temporally extended problem like climate change.  This panel will feature three leading participants in the scholarly literature on cost-benefit analysis and climate change.

     

     

Session Speakers
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Speaker

University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Speaker

Yale Law School
Moderator

The University of Chicago, The Law School
Speaker

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