2024 Legal Forum Symposium: Law in Times of Disaster
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
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- 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
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- Michael Burger & Jeff Shlegilmech
- Sarah Dávila A.
- Daniel Farber
- Robert Verchick
- Moderator: Mark Templeton, Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Abrams Environmental Law Clinic
- Panel II: Financial Diasaster
- 10:45am - 11:45am
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- Kathryn Judge & Richard Clarida
- Dhruv Chand Aggarwal
- Adrian Walters
- Moderator: Jared Mayer, Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow, Lecturer in Law
- Keynote Discussion
- 12:15pm - 1:20pm
- Panel III: Democratic Disaster
- 1:30pm - 2:45pm
- Michael Paulsen
- Samuel Issacharof
- Manoj Mate
- Moderator: Genevieve Lakier, Professor of Law, Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar
- 1:30pm - 2:45pm
- Panel IV: Public Health
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm
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- Lawrence Gostin
- Michele Goodwin
- Michael Sinha + Student Co-Author
- Moderator: Anup Malani, Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law
- Welcome