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2012 Mid-Year Meeting
Date(s):
June 8 12, 2012
Venue:Claremont Hotel
41 Tunnel Road Berkeley, CA 94705
Website:http://www.aals.org/midyear2012/
Fee(s):This event has a fee
Description:
The Mid-Year Meeting consists of two workshops - Workshop on Torts, Environment and Disaster, June 8-10 and the Workshop on When Technology Disrupts Law: How Do IP, Internet and Bio Law Adapt, June 10-12.
AALS Workshop on Torts, Environment and Disaster
Why Torts Law Teachers Would Attend? Tort scholarship and tort practice has been concerned with large-scale losses since the advent of the class action. Recent events, such as the attacks of 9/11 and the BP oil spill, have illustrated that the tools of aggregate litigation may not be enough to handle the job of ascertaining both responsibility and compensation after a disaster. The Torts and Compensation Law Section will take advantage of its joint meeting with the Environmental Law Section to provide a fresh look at the special problem that disasters pose for tort law in the 21st Century.
The topics covered by the torts portion of the joint meeting will include whether tort law should be limited in times of disasters, the role (if any) of tort principles in the design of public compensation and private settlement funds, and the relationship between tort and insurance law in times of disaster. At the end of the program there will be a session on the incorporation of issues relating to disaster in the torts curriculum. The program will provide torts and insurance scholars of all levels of seniority with new insights into their own research and teaching.
Why Environmental Law and Natural Resources Law Teachers Would Attend? Rather than a singular catastrophic event, Hurricane Katrina seems more and more like the opening act in what will become known as an age of disaster. Since Katrina, not only hurricanes, but also oil spills, earthq
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9:00 am - 9:20 am
History of Disaster
Type: AALS Programs
Short description is not available at this time.
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9:20 am - 10:30 am
Psychology of Disaster
Type: AALS Programs
Short description is not available at this time.
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Joonhong Ahn
Organization: University of California, Berkeley Department of Nuclear Engineering
Tom Baker
Organization: University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Carliss Y. Baldwin
Organization: Harvard Business School
Marilyn J. Berger
Organization: Seattle University School of Law
Rebecca M. Bratspies
Organization: City University of New York School of Law
Rebecca M. Bratspies
Organization: City University of New York School of Law
Teneille Brown
Organization: University of Utah, S. J. Quinney College of Law
Robert D. Bullard
Organization: Texas Southern University Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs
Dan L. Burk
Organization: University of California, Irvine School of Law
Elizabeth J. Cabraser
Organization: Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
James Ming Chen
Organization: University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
Daniel H. Cole
Organization: Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Daniel H. Cole
Organization: Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Robin K. Craig
Organization: Florida State University College of Law
Mary J. Davis
Organization: University of Kentucky, J. David Rosenberg College of Law
Rochelle C. Dreyfuss
Organization: New York University School of Law
Rebecca S. Eisenberg
Organization: The University of Michigan Law School
Andrew Endy
Organization: Stanford University
Howard M. Erichson
Organization: Fordham University School of Law
Daniel A. Farber
Organization: University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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