AALS Open Source Program

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Session Type: AALS Open Source Programs

Session Capacity: N/A

Hotel: Hilton New Orleans Riverside

Room: Grand Salon Section 12

Floor: First Floor

Should we “retreat” from the coasts? Relenting rising sea levels, dangerous storms, and growing coastal flooding all require us to rethink our construction near the coasts. How could law effect a retreat from the coasts? Should governments try to prohibit new construction? Should law attempt to remove people from low-lying areas? Should it use eminent domain? Insurance reform? Other carrots or sticks? What about property rights and constitutional claims? This panel brings together a group of noted and diverse scholars who have written and thought seriously about the complex issues surrounding a possible retreat from the coasts, in New Orleans, where the dangers are visible every day.