Law Day 2012

Douglas A. Kysar, deputy dean and Joseph M. Field ’55 Professor of Law at Yale Law School, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at Mercer Law School’s 2012 Law Day luncheon on March 16. His presentation is entitled “Limited Government in an Era of Unlimited Harm: A Case Study of Climate Change Litigation."

The Luncheon starts at 12:30 p.m. and will be held in the University Center on Mercer University’s main campus. The luncheon is $20 for alumni that register before March 9 and $30 at the door. Registration is available online or by contacting Leslie Cadle at cadle_l@law.mercer.edu or (478) 301-2180.

During the event, Mercer Law School will recognize two alumni for their outstanding contributions to the legal profession: Judge John T. Laney, LAW ’66 and CLA ’64, Outstanding Alumnus Award, and Dwight J. Davis LAW ’82, Alumni Meritorious Service Award.

Following the luncheon, two events will take place at the Law School. The Hugh Lawson, III Moot Court Competition, an annual intra-school 1L competition, will be held in the Moot Courtroom at 3 p.m. Additionally, ICLE will host a seminar on Introduction to the New Georgia Code starting at 2:30 p.m. in Classroom B.

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About The Speaker:
Kysar received his B.A. summa cum laude from Indiana University in 1995 and his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1998. After a federal judicial clerkship and two years at Foley Hoag and Eliot in Boston, he began his law teaching career at Cornell Law School in 2001. He joined the Yale Law School faculty in 2008. His teaching and research areas include torts, environmental law, and risk regulation. He has published articles on a wide array of environmental law and tort law topics, and is co-author of a leading casebook on torts. His recent book, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental Law and the Search for Objectivity (Yale University Press 2010), seeks to reinvigorate environmental law and policy by offering novel theoretical insights on cost-benefit analysis, the precautionary principle, and sustainable development.