Schedule

Wednesday, November 3:  Reception at the Marine Sciences Research Institute of Jacksonville University with remarks by Dr. Quinton White, Professor of Biology and Marine Science & Executive Director of the Marine Science Research Institute, Jacksonville University

Thursday, November 4 at Coastal Law:

8:30 - 9:00 -- Light Breakfast

9:00 - 9:45 -- Welcome & Opening Address (Opening Keynote Address: Dr. Suess and The Face of the Earth: Three Bedtime Stories for an Unsettled Age)

• Jim Chen, Dean and Professor, University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law

9:45 - 10:45 -- Panel 1: Understanding Environmental Disasters

• Dr. Gregory V. Button, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee
• Dr. Rick Dunford, Environmental Economics Services

10:45 - 11:45 -- Panel 2: Governance Failure & Environmental Disasters: The Deepwater Horizon

• Alyson Flournoy, Professor of Law & Director of the Environmental & Land Use Law Program, University of Florida Levin College of Law
• Lindsay Conlon, World Resources Institute

• 11:45 - 1:00 -- Lunch & Keynote Address (Oil Spills and Hurricanes)

• Dr. Stephen Leatherman, Co-Director, International Hurricane Research Center

1:00 - 2:00 -- Panel 3: Insurance Implications of Environmental Disasters

• Sean B. Hecht, Lecturer in Law & Executive Director, Environmental Law Center, UCLA Law
• Dr. Walter Rosenbaum, Professor Emeritus (political science) & Director Emeritus of the Bob Graham Center for Public Service, University of Florida

2:00 - 3:00 -- Panel 4: Environmental Disasters & Litigation

• Carl R. Nelson, Fowler White Boggs P.A.
• James R. May, Professor of Law & H. Albert Young Fellow in Constitutional Law; Professor of Graduate Engineering (Adjunct); Widener University

3:00 - 4:00 -- Panel 5: Environmental Disasters & Human Health

• Richard McNelis, Senior Counsel, Florida Department of Health, Florida Public Health Emergency Law
• Dr. Christopher M. Teaf, Associate Director, Center for Biomedical & Toxicological Research, Florida State University

Reception following at 4 p.m.

You can find a complete rundown, including videos of each presentation, of last year's summit here.