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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