Event Profile

2015 Mid-Year Meeting

Date(s):
June 22 — 26, 2015
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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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  • 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM AALS Registration
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  • 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM AALS Registration
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  • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM AALS Reception
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  • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM AALS Reception
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  • 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM Introduction
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  • 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM Introduction
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  • 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM Welcome
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  • 8:45 AM - 9:00 AM Welcome
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  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Plenary Session - Changes in Families and Family Law
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  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Plenary Session: Assessment Vocabulary and Core Concepts
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  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Plenary Session: Assessment Vocabulary and Core Concepts
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  • 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Refreshment Break
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  • 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Refreshment Break
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  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 AM Plenary - Family Law and Inequality
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  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Plenary Session: Cultures of Assessment
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  • 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM Box Luncheon
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  • 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm Measuring Learning Gains Boxed Luncheon
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  • 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Plenary Session: Best Practices in Curricular Mapping
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  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Plenary - Family Options and Law
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  • 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Break
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Sarah Abramowicz
Organization: Wayne State University Law School

Jamie R. Abrams
Organization: University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law

Jamie R. Abrams
Organization: University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law

Raquel E. Aldana
Organization: University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law

Raquel E. Aldana
Organization: University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law

Raquel E. Aldana
Organization: University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law


Cheryl E. Amana-Burris
Organization: North Carolina Central University School of Law

Michelle J. Anderson
Organization: City University of New York School of Law

Albertina Antognini
Organization: University of Kentucky, J. David Rosenberg College of Law

Susan F. Appleton
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis School of Law

Susan F. Appleton
Organization: Washington University in St. Louis School of Law

Barbara Ann Atwood
Organization: The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law

Barbara Ann Atwood
Organization: The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law

Sahar Aziz
Organization: Texas A&M University School of Law
Session: The Workplace

Wendy A. Bach
Organization: University of Tennessee College of Law

Steven C. Bahls
Organization: Augustana College

R. Richard Banks
Organization: Stanford Law School

Katharine T. Bartlett
Organization: Duke University School of Law

Katharine T. Bartlett
Organization: Duke University School of Law