The Public Life of the Private Law: A Conference in Honor of Richard A. Nagareda

On September 27-28, 2013, Vanderbilt Law School hosts “The Public Life of the Private Law: A Conference in Honor of Richard A. Nagareda.”   The schedule provides:

Friday, September 27
1:30–3:00 p.m. Theodore Rave (Houston), “Settlement, ADR, and Class Action Superiority”
Commentators: Suzanna Sherry (Vanderbilt) chair, Robert Bone (Texas), and Emery Lee (FJC)

3:15–4:45 p.m. Maria Glover (Georgetown), “A Separate Peace? The Non-Removability of State Law Actions in Multi-District Litigation”.   Commentators: Tracey George (Vanderbilt) chair, William Rubenstein (Harvard), and Patrick Woolley (Texas)

Saturday, September 28
8:30–10:00 a.m. Troy McKenzie (NYU), “The Mass Tort Bankruptcy: A Pre-History”
Commentators: Lynn Baker (Texas) chair, Joe Cecil (FJC), and Brian Fitzpatrick (Vanderbilt)

10:15–11:45 a.m. Catherine Borden (FJC) and Margaret Williams (FJC) (with Emery Lee), “Repeat Players in Multidistrict Litigation”.  Commentators: Charles Silver (Texas) chair, Paul Edelman (Vanderbilt), and Myriam Gilles (Cardozo)

1:15–2:45 p.m. Adam Zimmerman (Loyola-Los Angeles), “The Corrective Justice State”
Commentators: John Goldberg (Harvard) chair, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch (Georgia), and Edward L. Rubin (Vanderbilt)

– SBS