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2014 Mid-Year Meeting
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June 5 9, 2014
Venue:N/A
Website:Not available
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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4:00pm - 8:00pm
AALS Registration
Type: AALS Programs
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4:00pm - 8:00pm
AALS Registration
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6:00pm - 7:30pm
AALS Reception
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8:45am - 9:00am
Introduction
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8:45am - 9:00am
Welcome
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10:15am - 10:30am
Refreshment Break
Type: AALS Programs
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10:30am - 12:00pm
After Windsor
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10:30am - 12:00pm
Parenting
Type: AALS Programs
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12:00pm - 1:30pm
AALS Luncheon
Type: AALS Programs
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3:00pm - 3:15pm
Refreshment Break
Type: AALS Programs
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10:15am - 10:30am
Refreshment Break
Type: AALS Programs
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Bryan L. Adamson
Organization: Seattle University School of Law
Bryan L. Adamson
Organization: Seattle University School of Law
Erez Aloni
Organization: Whittier Law School
Annette R. Appell
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
Judith Areen
Organization: Georgetown University Law Center
Judith Areen
Organization: Georgetown University Law Center
Carlos A. Ball
Organization: Rutgers Law School
Mehrsa Baradaran
Organization: University of Georgia School of Law
Jordan M. Barry
Organization: University of San Diego School of Law
Robert P. Bartlett
Organization: University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Noa Ben-Asher
Organization: Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law
Jennifer E. Bird-Pollan
Organization: University of Kentucky, J. David Rosenberg College of Law
William A. Birdthistle
Organization: Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
Luke A Boso
Organization: Savannah Law School
Michael Boucai
Organization: University at Buffalo School of Law, The State University of New York
Andrea J Boyack
Organization: Washburn University School of Law
Dana Brakman Reiser
Organization: Brooklyn Law School
Kim S. Buchanan
Organization: University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Patricia A. Cain
Organization: Santa Clara University School of Law
Timothy A. Canova
Organization: Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law
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