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Thursday, June 6, 2024
9:00 a.m.
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Registration and Continental Breakfast (provided)
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9:30 a.m. |
Opening Remarks
- Stephan Landsman, Emeritus Professor, DePaul College of Law; Director, Clifford Symposium
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9:45 a.m.
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SESSION I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES
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Remedy Becomes Regulation - Samuel Issacharoff, New York University; Adam Littlestone-Luria, Member, New York Bar
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Toxic Standards: Regulatory Epistemology and the Legacy of Endocrine Disruption Chemicals - Colleen Lanier-Christensen, Harvard University
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Corrupted Science: PCBs, Roundup and Monsanto in the Early Years of the EPA - David Rosner, Columbia University
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Physicists as Environmental Experts: The Case of Richard Wilson - Rachel Rothschild, University of Michigan
Discussant: Noah Rosenblum, New York University
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12:00 p.m.
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Lunch (provided)
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1:00 p.m.
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SESSION II: OTHER INDUSTRIES?
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Farm Until It’s Gone: Industrial Animal Agriculture and the Limits of Law - Douglas Kysar, Yale University
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Public Health Nuisances - Catherine Sharkey, New York University
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Tragic Exposure, Mass Litigation and Regulatory Failure: Does It Have to Be This Way? - Wendy Wagner, University of Texas; Steve Gold, Rutgers University; Thomas McGarity, University of Texas
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Evidence of Compliance - Maggie Wittlin, Fordham University
Discussant: Gregory Mark, DePaul University
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3:15 p.m.
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Break
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3:20 p.m.
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SESSION III: ENABLERS
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Discovery Gamesmanship in Mass Torts - Seth Endo, Seattle University
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New Empirics on Litigation Secrecy (Virtual Presentation) - David Freeman Engstrom, Stanford University*
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Toxic Torts and the Shadowland of Responsibility -John Goldberg, Harvard University; Benjamin Zipursky, Fordham University
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Effects of Sponsorship on Research Results - Michael Saks, Arizona State University
Discussant: Stephan Landsman
* Collaborators concerning the reported upon research include Nora Freeman Engstrom, Stanford University; Jonah Gelbach, University of California, Berkeley; Austin Peters, Stanford University
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5:30 p.m.
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Conclusion of Day One
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Friday, June 7, 2024
8:00 a.m.
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Registration and Continental Breakfast (provided)
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9:00 a.m.
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SESSION IV: ETHICAL DILEMMAS REGARDING LEGAL REPRESENTATION
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Deal making and the Ethically Slippery Slope in the Quest for Global Peace - Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, University of Georgia
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Corporate Lawyers, Disloyalty and the Opioid Crisis - Elise Maizel, Michigan State University
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What About Purdue’s Lawyers? A Brief History of Lawyer Gatekeeping From Social Trustee Professionalism Through the 2023 ABA Model Rules Amendment - Bradley Wendel, Cornell University
Discussant: Myriam Gilles, Yeshiva University
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11:00 a.m.
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Break
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11:15 p.m.
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SESSION V: RESPONSES
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On the Relation Between Causation and Misconduct - Alexandra Lahav, Cornell University
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Using Public Nuisance Litigation to Address Industry Misconduct: Common Law Statutes, Delegation Doctrine and Systems Theory -Timothy Lytton, Georgia State University; Hillel Levin, University of Georgia
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Microlocal Litigation for a Mass Tort World - Sarah Swan, Rutgers University
Discussant: Robert Rabin, Stanford University
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1:15 p.m.
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Concluding Remarks
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