2013 Symposium

2013 Symposium

OPENING REMARKS

Panel I: ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS & DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS 

FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES AS REGULATION

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

INFORMATION DISCLOSURE THROUGH FOOD & PRODUCT LABELING

A DEBATE ON CAMPAIGN FINANCE DISCLOSURE

 


Schedule:

Registration and Breakfast

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Marc Mihaly | President and Dean, Vermont Law School
Janet Milne | Professor of Law, Vermont Law School

Panel I: “ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS & DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS”
Sponsored by the Environmental Law Society

Moderator: Pat Parenteau | Professor of Law, Vermont Law School

Panelists:
Shakeb Afsah, An International Perspective on Environmental Disclosure
Mark Cohen, Can Information Disclosure Policies Help Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
Katrina Kuh, Environmental Disclosure: Individuals as Audience and Subject
Matthew McFeeley, Environmental Disclosure: Lessons from the Fracking Context
Shailesh Sahay, Benefits of Disclosure Versus Protection of Innovation Across Diverse Business Areas

Morning Break

Panel II: “FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES AS REGULATION”
Sponsored by the Business Law Society

Moderator: Jennifer Taub, Professor of Law, Vermont Law School

Panelists:
Susan L. Donegan, Financial Services Regulation: Balancing Confidentiality with a Need to Know
Joan MacLeod Heminway, Investor and Market Protection in the Crowdfunding Era: Disclosing to and for the “Crowd”
Sanford Lewis, Securities Law as An Environmental and Human Rights Accountability Framework
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, The SEC and Dark Political Money

Lunch

Keynote Address
Sponsored by the Women’s Law Group

Katherine McFate Disclosure, An Effective Tool or Fruitless Charade in the Struggle to Improve Corporate Behavior?

Panel III: “INFORMATION DISCLOSURE THROUGH FOOD & PRODUCT LABELING”
Sponsored by the Food & Agricultural Law Society and the Center for Agriculture & Food Systems

Moderator:Laurie Beyranevand, Professor of Law, Vermont Law School

Panelists:
Christine DeLorme, Whole Truths and Half Truths: Disclosure and the FTC Act
Brian Dunkiel, Are Consumers the New Environmental Regulator?
George Kimbrell, The Constitutionality of State Genetically Engineered Food Labeling
Walter Olson, Five Train Wrecks of Information Disclosure Policy
David Zuckerman

A DEBATE ON CAMPAIGN FINANCE DISCLOSURE
Sponsored by the Federalist Society

Moderator: Ross Sneyd | Journalist with the Burlington Free Press and the Associate Press from 2008–2013, and News Director at Vermont Public Radio.

Debaters:
Tara Malloy | Senior Counsel, Campaign Legal Center
Bradley Smith | Chairman, Center for Competitive Politics, and Chair of the West Virginia University College of Law

Closing Remarks

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