Event Profile

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

  • Individual Registration
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  • 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm AALS Registration - Workshop on Torts, Environment and Disaster
    Type: AALS Programs

    Short description is not available at this time.

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

    Short description is not available at this time.

  • 8:00 pm Documentary Film - Out of the Ashes: 9/11
    Type: AALS Programs

    Short description is not available at this time.

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

    Short description is not available at this time.

  • 9:00 am - 9:20 am History of Disaster
    Type: AALS Programs

    Short description is not available at this time.

  • 9:20 am - 10:30 am Psychology of Disaster
    Type: AALS Programs

    Short description is not available at this time.

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

    Short description is not available at this time.

  • 10:45 am - 12:00 pm Precautionary Principle: Regulatory and Tort Perspectives
    Type: AALS Programs

    Short description is not available at this time.

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

    Short description is not available at this time.

  • 1:45 pm - 3:00 pm Environmental Law Plenary - Climate Change, Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Social Cost of Carbon
    Type: AALS Programs

    Short description is not available at this time.

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

    Short description is not available at this time.

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

    Short description is not available at this time.

  • 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm Environmental Law Plenary - Generations of Environmental Law
    Type: AALS Programs

    Short description is not available at this time.

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

    Short description is not available at this time.

  • 4:15 pm - 5:45 pm Environemental Law Plenary Discussion
    Type: AALS Programs

    Short description is not available at this time.

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

    Short description is not available at this time.

  • 9:00 am - 10:15 am Environmental Law Plenary - Disaster Prevention
    Type: AALS Programs

    Short description is not available at this time.

  • 9:00 am - 10:15 am Torts Plenary - Interaction of Tort and Insurance Law
    Type: AALS Programs

    Short description is not available at this time.

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

    Short description is not available at this time.

  • 10:30 am - 11:30 am Environmental Plenary - Climate Adaptation
    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