/news-archive/tag/ben-j-altheimer-symposium/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:06:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2019/09/20/altheimer-symposium-3/ Fri, 20 Sep 2019 13:06:42 +0000 /news/?p=75099 ... Bowen Law School鈥檚 annual Altheimer Symposium to focus on school-to-prison pipeline]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law will host the 2019 Ben J. Altheimer Symposium, organized by the school鈥檚 Law Review, on Nov. 1, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. The symposium, organized by the school’s Law Review, will be themed 鈥淏locking the Pathways: Eradicating the School-to-Prison Pipeline.鈥� The 鈥渟chool-to-prison pipeline鈥� describes increasingly strict disciplinary policies that criminalize youth, putting students into contact with law enforcement at a young age. Speakers at the symposium will address how the pipeline disproportionately affects youths from disadvantaged backgrounds. The goal of the symposium is to define the issue and propose solutions for the problems created by the pipeline.聽 Speakers from the Intercultural Development Research Association, the National Center for Youth Law, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Texas Appleseed will address topics, including mental health among juveniles, racial disparities in the pipeline, police presence in schools, and creating positive school climates. The event is free and open to the public, but space is limited and registration is required. The symposium will be simulcast at the University of Arkansas Law School in Fayetteville. CLE credit is pending.聽 The Ben J. Altheimer Symposium is an annual event at which the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Law Review and the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law welcome prominent scholars and speakers to the law school to explore topics of interest to the legal and scholarly community. Selected symposium presenters also contribute scholarly articles to a special publication of the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Law Review that is devoted to the symposium topic. For more information about the 2019 symposium, please contact Amanda Partridge at ajpartridge@ualr.edu. Visit the symposium website to register.]]> /news-archive/2018/01/31/altheimer-symposium/ Wed, 31 Jan 2018 19:51:09 +0000 /news/?p=69191 ... Altheimer Symposium highlights the legal aspects of climate change]]> Registration is open, and participants are eligible for 5.50 hours of general Continuing Legal Education. Some of the most prominent scholars in environmental law will be presenting on the challenges of legal adaptation to climate change. Topics include:

• The Science of Climate Change | Dr. Al Armendariz, The Sierra Club
• Heat Waves: Legal Adaptations to the Most Lethal Climate Disaster (So Far) | Michael Gerrard, Columbia University
• Government and the Governance of Wildfire in the Wildland-Urban Interface | Stephen, Miller, University of Idaho
• Consenting to Disaster: Policy-making and Climate Change Denial in the Southern United States | Blake Hudson, University of Houston
• The Hurricane Katrina Levee Breach Litigation: Lessons for Making Policy in a Time of Climate Change

Registration for Arkansas Bar Association members and Bowen alumni is $100. Bowen alumni who are not members of the Arkansas Bar Association should contact Emily Terry (emterry@ualr.edu) for the discount code. For all other attorneys, registration is $125. More information and registration links can be found at ualr.edu/lawreview/2018-symposium-registration/. The symposium presents a timely opportunity for scholars and practitioners to contribute to the discourse on climate change adap颅tation lawmaking in the United States. The number of billion-dollar-plus weather-related disasters has risen from an average of two per year in the 1980s to an annual av颅erage of 10.6 for the 2012 to 2016 period. In 2017 alone, the cost of weather and climate disasters is now estimated at $308 billion, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information. Although these figures cap颅ture much of the direct economic costs of disasters, they fail to reflect indirect and non-economic costs such as loss of life, displacement, and community disruption. The market has not spawned robust adaptation; development subsidized by federal insurance continues in vulnerable areas. Furthermore, no coherent body of law exists in the United States at either the federal or state level that is aimed at reducing vul颅nerability to climate change. Permanently endowed by the Ben J. Altheimer Foundation, the Ben J. Altheimer Symposium is an annual event at which the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock聽Law Review and the 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock聽William H. Bowen School of Law invite prominent scholars and speakers to the law school to explore topics of interest to the legal and scholarly community. Selected symposium presenters also contribute scholarly articles to a special publication of the 糖心Vlog传媒LR Law Review that is devoted to the symposium topic.]]>