2015 Symposium Schedule, Panel Descriptions, and Presenters

VJTL 2015 Symposium Schedule and Panelists – This is Not a Drill

This is Not a Drill: Confronting Legal Issues in the Wake of International Disasters

Vanderbilt University Law School

February 13, 2015

Program Outline

8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.

Opening Remarks

Dean Kevin Stack, Vanderbilt University Law School

9:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Dr. Eduardo Valencia-Ospina

10:30 a.m. – 11:45 p.m.

Panel #1 ILC Draft

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Lunch Panel

Responses to International Disasters

1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Panel #2 Disaster Assistance

2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

Panel #3 Environmental Effects

4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Reception

Presenters

Keynote Speaker

Eduardo Valencia-Ospina, Special Rapporteur, International Law Commission for the United Nations

ILC Draft Panel:

Moderator: David Fisher

Elizabeth Katchka, Chief of Staff for Legal Policy, Office of the Chief Counsel, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Michael Cooper, Managing Director, The Ploughshare Group, LLC

Arnold Pronto, Senior Legal Officer United Nations, Office of Legal Affairs

Responses to International Disasters Panel:

Moderator: Michael Newton

Kirsten Bookmiller, Professor, Department of Government and Political Affairs and

International Studies Program, Millersville University of Pennsylvania

Nathan Clark, Faculty of Law, Centre for International Law and Justice, University of Copenhagen

Anastasia Telesetsky, Associate Professor of Law, University of Idaho College of Law

Disaster Assistance/Response Panel/Right to Assistance:

Moderator: Ingrid Wuerth

Chris Rassi, Senior Legal Officer, International Federation of Red Cross

Michael Newton, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School

Giulio Bartolini, Associate Professor, Department of Law, Roma Tre University

Environmental Panel/ Responses after Fukushima:

Moderator: Jim Rossi

Emily Hammond, Professor of Law, George Washington University

Lincoln Davies, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, University of Utah

Dave Lochbaum, Director, Nuclear Safety Project

Joseph Tomain, Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati

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