2024 Legal Forum Symposium: Law in Times of Disaster

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The past few decades have brought disasters that have significantly changed our societies, and many predict that disasters will continue to shape the next few decades in unforeseeable ways. As we confront crises that affect the environment, health, financial markets, and democracy itself, The University of Chicago Legal Forum will convene scholars for its annual symposium to discuss how laws can help solve, regulate, and respond to threats worldwide. Our hope is that the discussion and scholarship that is generated from the symposium titled Crisis, Calamity, and Catastrophe: Law in Times of Disaster will shed light on what is needed to curtail the worst effects of cascading disasters.

 

Schedule of Events

  •  Friday. November 8, 2024
    • Welcome
      • 9:00am - 9:15am
        • Dean Thomas J. Miles
        • Kasey A. Coleman (University of Chicago Legal Forum)
        • Caroline Cohen (University of Chicago Legal Forum)
    • Panel I: Environmental Disaster
      • 9:15am - 10:30am
        • Disaster Recovery and Climate Resilience after Chevron, Michael Burger & Jeff Schlegelmilch
        • A Continuum of Responsibility: An Examination of the Human Right to a Healthy Environment of Present and Future Generations, Sarah Dávila A.
        • FEMA Unbound: Disaster Justice and the Responsive State, Robert Verchick
        • Moderator: Mark Templeton, Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Abrams Environmental Law Clinic
    • Panel II: Financial Diasaster
      • 10:45am - 11:45am
        • The Emergency Lending Authority of the Federal Reserve, Kathryn Judge
        • Inhouse Lawyers and the Impact of Crisis-Driven Financial Legislation Evidence from Sarbanes-Oxley, Dhruv Chand Aggarwal
        • Majority Rule and Bankruptcy Resolution of Mass Harm Events, Adrian Walters
        • Moderator: Jared Mayer, Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow, Lecturer in Law
    • Keynote Discussion
      • 12:15pm - 1:20pm
        • Remarks by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul
        • Q & A with Michael A. Scodro, Lecturer in Law
    • Panel III: Democratic Disaster
      • 1:30pm - 2:45pm
        • "Descent into the Maelstrom": Political Catastrophe and the Failure of Constitutional Checks, Michael Paulsen
        • Emergencies, Alien and Domestic, Samuel Issacharoff
        • Elections, Courts, and Democratic Crises, Manoj Mate
        • Moderator: Genevieve Lakier, Professor of Law, Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar
    • Panel IV: Public Health
      • 3:00pm - 4:00pm
        • A Global Legal Order to Achieve the World Health Organization’s Constitutional Mission to Attain the Highest Attainable Standard of Mental and Physical Health—Equitably and Everywhere, Lawrence Gostin
        • On Liberty, Tyranny, and Accountability: COVID-19 and the Constitution, Michele Goodwin
        • Vaccines for Pandemics: Lessons from COVID-19, Michael Sinha & Alison McCarthy
        • Moderator: Anup Malani, Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law