通知公告

On May 22 at 12:00 PM (Noon) in Room 111, Professor Stephen Landsman of the DePaul University College of Law in Chicago will speak on "Effective Compensation in Environmental Disasters".

Please join us for the talk.

5月22日中午12：00时，在环境学院111会议室，来自美国德保罗大学法学院的Stephen Landman教授讲带来关于“环境灾难性事件中的有效赔偿”的讲座，欢迎大家参加。

演讲人简介：

Stephan Landsman is the Robert A. Clifford Professor of Tort Law and Social Policy at DePaul University College of Law.  He is a graduate of Kenyon College and Harvard Law School.  He is the author of half a dozen books including A Modern Approach to Evidence (West 2014, with Lempert et al), Crimes of the Holocaust: The Law Confronts Hard Cases (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), and The Adversary System: A Description and Defense (American Enterprise Institute, 1984).  He has published more than 70 law review articles in such journals as the Stanford Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Annual Review of Law and Social Science and American Historical Review.  His scholarship has focused on a wide range of issues from jury trials, pro se litigation and lay participation in adjudication to punishing crimes of the Holocaust and the history of the adversarial system of justice.  He is the organizer and director of the Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Civil Justice which for twenty years has been a leader in publishing materials on trends in civil litigation.  Professor Landsman has taught in England (Westminster University) and India (National Law School of India, Bangalore; National University of Juridical Sciences, Calcutta) as well as a number of law schools in the United States (Brooklyn Law School, Fordham University School of Law, Suffolk University Law School, Cleveland-Marshal College of Law).

In addition to his scholarly work Professor Landsman is an accomplished legal advocate and member of the bar.  He has appeared before the United States Supreme Court as the successful advocate in City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health, 462 U.S. 416, as well as in a significant number of other cases.  He has served as an expert witness on behalf of the United States in Loewen Group v. U.S., a NAFTA arbitration. He has been a member of the American Bar Association Litigation Section leadership for more than 20 years, was the Reporter responsible for the drafting of the ABA’s Principles for Juries and Jury Trials, and, from 2009 to 2012, served on the ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary responsible for the screening of all nominees to the federal courts.