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Framing an Earth Jurisprudence for a Planet in Peril
A symposium sponsored by Barry Law Review and the Center for Earth Jurisprudence

February 29, 2008
Barry University School of Law
Orlando, FL


*** MOST CURRENT SCHEDULE ***

8:00 a.m.
 
Continental breakfast in foyer of the Law School
8:30
Introduction to the Symposium: Gail Benson, Editor in Chief, Barry Law Review
8:35
Beginning Reflections on the Symposium: Sister Pat Siemen, Executive Director of the Center for Earth Jurisprudence
8:40
Welcome: Dean Leticia Diaz, Barry University School of Law, and Dean Alfredo Garcia, St. Thomas University School of Law, on the Center for Earth Jurisprudence as a collaborative initiative
9:00
Introduction of Cormac Cullinan, Esquire, by Jaime Nelson, Symposium Director, Barry Law Review
9:05
Cormac Cullinan, “Do Humans Have Standing to Deny Trees Rights?”
9:50
Introduction of Barbara Wall, PhD
9:55
Barbara Wall, “Ethical Considerations for a New Jurisprudence”
10:35
Break
10:50
Introduction of Andrew Kimbrell, Esquire
10:55
Andrew Kimbrell, “Recovery of Natural Law as a Paradigm for a New Jurisprudence”
11:35
Question and Answer Session, moderated by Professor Judy Koons
12:00
Lunch
1:15
Introduction of Winona LaDuke, Author and Indigenous Activist
1:20
Winona LaDuke, “Indigenous Tenets for an Era of Climate”
Change”
2:00
Introduction of Donald Goldberg, Esquire
2:05 
Donald Goldberg, “Inuit, Global Warming and Human Rights: The Right to Be Cold”
2:45 
Break
3:00
Introduction of Joseph Guth, Esquire
3:05
Joseph Guth, “Law for an Ecological Age”
3:45 
Question and Answer Session, moderated by Professor Judy Koons
4:20
Concluding remarks by Sister Pat
4:30
Closure

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This symposium is sponsored in part by:

Accutest Laboratories

Jacobs & Goodman, P.A.

    

   

    

   

 

Center for Earth Jurisprudence
A Collaborative Center of Barry & St. Thomas Universities
St. Thomas University School of Law
16401 NW 37th Avenue
Miami Gardens, FL 33054
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