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Agenda

Thursday, June 6, 2024

9:00 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast (provided)
9:30 a.m. Opening Remarks

  • Stephan Landsman, Emeritus Professor, DePaul College of Law; Director, Clifford Symposium
9:45 a.m.
SESSION I: HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

  • Remedy Becomes Regulation Samuel Issacharoff, New York University; Adam Littlestone-Luria, Member, New York Bar
  • Toxic Standards: Regulatory Epistemology and the Legacy of Endocrine Disruption Chemicals - Colleen Lanier-Christensen, Harvard University
  • Corrupted Science: PCBs, Roundup and Monsanto in the Early Years of the EPA - David Rosner, Columbia University
  • Physicists as Environmental Experts: The Case of Richard Wilson - Rachel Rothschild, University of Michigan
  • Discussant:  Noah Rosenblum, New York University

12:00 p.m.
Lunch (provided)

1:00 p.m.
SESSION II: OTHER INDUSTRIES?

  • Farm Until It’s Gone: Industrial Animal Agriculture and the Limits of Law - Douglas Kysar, Yale University
  • Public Health Nuisances - Catherine Sharkey, New York University
  • 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
  • Evidence of Compliance - Maggie Wittlin, Fordham University
  • Discussant:  Gregory Mark, DePaul University

3:15 p.m.
Break

3:20 p.m.
 
SESSION III: ENABLERS

  • Discovery Gamesmanship in Mass Torts - Seth Endo, Seattle University
  • New Empirics on Litigation Secrecy (Virtual Presentation) - David Freeman Engstrom, Stanford University*
  • Toxic Torts and the Shadowland of Responsibility -John Goldberg, Harvard University; Benjamin Zipursky, Fordham University
  • 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

5:30 p.m.
Conclusion of Day One

Friday, June 7, 2024

8:00 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast (provided)
9:00 a.m.

​​​​​SESSION IV: ETHICAL DILEMMAS REGARDING LEGAL REPRESENTATION

  • Deal making and the Ethically Slippery Slope in the Quest for Global Peace - Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, University of Georgia
  • Corporate Lawyers, Disloyalty and the Opioid Crisis - Elise Maizel, Michigan State University
  • 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

11:00 a.m.
Break
11:15 p.m.
SESSION V: RESPONSES

  • On the Relation Between Causation and Misconduct - Alexandra Lahav, Cornell University
  • 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
  • Microlocal Litigation for a Mass Tort World - Sarah Swan, Rutgers University
  • Discussant:  Robert Rabin, Stanford University

1:15 p.m.
Concluding Remarks