Counting on Catastrophe:
How Environmental & Energy Laws Account for Catastrophic Risks
Friday, February 18, 2011
Keynote Speaker
James W. Noe
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, Hercules Offshore Inc.
Executive Director, Shallow Water Energy Security Coalition
Speaker-Ethics
John E. Dupuy
Assistant Inspector General
Office of Investigations, Department of the Interior
Presentations
Holding Scofflaws Accountable for Violent Business Crimes (pdf)
Jane F. Barrett
Associate Professor
Director, Environmental Law Clinic
University of Maryland School of Law
Blindsided: Why Agencies and Industries Misperceive Risks (pdf)
David Dana
Stanford Clinton Sr. and Zylpha Kilbride Clinton Research Professor, Northwestern University Law School
Ethical issues in responding to catastrophes: Investigations, disclosures and confidences (pdf)
John E. Dupuy
Assistant Inspector General
Office of Investigations, Department of the Interior
NEPA and Risk–Can "Worst Case Analysis" Be Legally Compelled? (pdf)
Victor Flatt
Thomas F. and Elizabeth Taft Distinguished Professor in
Environmental Law and Director, Center for Law, Environment, Adaptation, and Resources (CLEAR), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Law
Deepwater Horizon Aftermath: Regulatory and Statutory Developments (pdf)
Jerry Higdon
Partner, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP
Law, Profit, and Disaster: A Historical Analysis (pdf)
Arthur F. McEvoy
Paul E. Treusch Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
Perspectives from the Offshore Drilling Industry on the Federal Government's Response to the Macondo Blowout and Oil Spill (pdf)
James W. Noe
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, Hercules Offshore, Inc.
Executive Director, Shallow Water Energy Security Coalition