Counting on Catastrophe:
How Environmental & Energy Laws Account for Catastrophic Risks

(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