Environmental Disasters: Linking Law, Science, & Policy
12th Annual Northeast Florida Environmental Summit
Florida Coastal School of Law
&
Jacksonville University
November 4, 2010
For video of the presentations, click on the links below.
Jim Chen, Dean and Professor, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
Disaster and Its Dimensions: Legal responses to distortions of time and space
Dr. Gregory V. Button, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee
Uncertainty in the Wake of Environmental Disasters
Dr. Rick Dunford, Environmental Economics Services
Potential Economic Effects of Environmental Disasters
Alyson Flournoy, Professor of Law & Director of Environmental & Land Use Law Program, University of Florida Levin College of Law
The BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster: A Case Study in Regulatory Failure
Lindsay Conlon, World Resources Institute
Worst Case Scenario: Governance Failures Leading up to the Gulf Oil Spill
Dr. Stephen Leatherman, Director, Laboratory for Coastal Research
Oil Spills and Hurricanes
Sean B. Hecht, Lecturer in Law & Executive Director, Environmental Law Center, UCLA Law
The Role of Insurance in Climate Change Risk Management and Adaptation
Dr. Walter Rosenbaum, Professor Emeritus & Director Emeritus of the Bob Graham Center for Public Service, University of Florida
Has Flood Insurance Become Development Assurance?: The Federal Role in Mitigating Flood Hazard Risk
James R. May, Professor of Law, H. Albert Young Fellow in Constitutional Law, and Professor of Graduate Engineering (Adjunct), Widener University
Courting Disaster: Constitutional Climate Litigation
Carl R. Nelson, Fowler White Boggs P.A.
Oil Pollution Act Litigation: Recovery of Purely Economic Losses
Richard McNelis, Senior Counsel, Florida Department of Health
Florida Public Health Emergency Law
Dr. Christopher M. Teaf, Associate Director, Center for Biomedical & Toxicological Research, Florida State University
Public Health During a Disaster: Assessing, Prioritizing & Protecting
Biographical Information:
Keynote Speakers
Jim Chen, Dean and Professor, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law
Dr. Stephen Leatherman, Director, Laboratory for Coastal Research
Click here for panelist biographies.
Thanks to our sponsors:
City of Jacksonville
Environmental & Land Use Law Section of the Florida Bar