Schedule

University of Pennsylvania Law School
3501 Sansom Street, Philadelphia PA
November 19-20, 2015

November 19, 2015
*Location: Penn Law Fitts Auditorium*
4:30pm	Welcome, Dean Theodore Ruger Introduction, Professor Eric Feldman Keynote Address: Kenneth Feinberg “Unconventional Responses to Unique Catastrophes: Tailoring the Law to Meet the Challenges” CLE Reading, “What is Life Worth? The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11”
6:00pm	Dinner (for invited guests)
November 20, 2015
Location: Penn Law Silverman 240A
8:30am	Registration & Breakfast
8:45am	Welcome, Dean Theodore Ruger Introduction, Professor Eric Feldman
9:00am	Panel One: Disasters: Mapping the Legal Terrain William Burke-White, Penn Law, Chair Robert Rabin, Professor of Law, Stanford University: “Compensatory and Remedial Relief for Disasters in the American Legal System” Marc Ferzan, School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia: “Catastrophic Events: State and City Challenges under the U.S. Disaster Recovery Regulatory Scheme” John Hoffman: Acting Attorney General, State of New Jersey: “Managing the Disaster After the Disaster: Legal Issues in the Wake of Superstorm Sandy”
10:15am	Panel Two: Industrial Disasters: The Case of Bhopal Shyam Balganesh, Penn Law, Chair Indira Jaising, Lawyer’s Collective, and former Additional Solicitor General, India: “Legal Letdown” Marc Galanter, Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin: “Missing Deterrence: Bhopal’s Bitter Legacy”
11:30am	Break
11:45am	Panel Three: Natural Disasters: The Sichuan Earthquake Jacques deLisle, Penn Law, Chair An Yu, Professor of Public Policy, Tsinghua University: “Responding to the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake: The Legal Issues” Benjamin Liebman, Professor of Law, Columbia University: “Damages for Disasters in China”
1:00pm	Lunch
2:00pm	Panel Four: Nuclear Disasters: The Fukushima Meltdown Frank Upham, Professor of Law, New York University, Chair Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Chair, Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission: Lessons and On-Going Issues of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Richard Samuels, Professor of Political Science, MIT: “3.11: Disaster and Change in Japan”
3:15pm	Panel Five: Comparing Law and Disasters: Three Perspectives Eric Feldman, Penn Law, Chair Peter Schuck, Professor of Law, Yale University and New York University Colonel Jerome Hatfield, Regional Administrator, Region II, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Reilly Morse, Director, Mississippi Center for Justice
4:15pm	Closing Remarks