AALS Hot Topics Panel: The BP Blowout Oil Spill and Its Implications

I have the pleasure of joining a Hot Topics panel for AALS 2011 in San Francisco.  The panel will occur, Friday, January 7th from 10:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.  Here's the panel description: 

The well-publicized BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which began in April, 2010 and continued for 86 consecutive days, was an environmental and human disaster of the first order. This panel will focus on a number of the broad policy implications of the spill. Topics to be discussed will include the implications of the BP spill for the conceptual framework used in planning for environmentally important places, regulatory privatization, regulatory capture, the systemic lessons to be learned from both the BP and Exxon Valdez oil spills, the extent to which environmental law is adequate to prevent future oil spills, the implications of the spill for implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act, environmental justice issues raised by the spill, and approaches to teaching law students about the spill. The panelists have promised to keep their remarks relatively brief in order to allow ample time for comments and questions from the audience.

Speakers
Speaker: Rebecca M. Bratspies, City University of New York CUNY School of Law 
Speaker: David A. Dana, Northwestern University School of Law 
Speaker: Professor Joshua P. Fershee, University of North Dakota School of Law 
Speaker: Victor B. Flatt, University of North Carolina School of Law 
Moderator: Joel A. Mintz, Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center 
Speaker: Hari Michele Osofsky, University of Minnesota Law School 
Speaker: Cymie Payne
Speaker: Zygmunt J. Plater, Boston College Law School 
Speaker: William Snape, American University Washington College of Law 

If this is of interest, I hope you can join us. 

--JPF