Law professor to discuss climate change and the courts

Doug Kysar will present his inaugural lecture as the Joseph M. Field ‘55 Professor of Law on Monday, Nov. 15, at 4:30 p.m. in Rm. 127 of the Sterling Law Building, 127 Wall St.

His lecture is titled “Climate Change, Courts, and the Common Law.” It is free and open to the public. A reception will follow in the Alumni Reading Room.

“To date, scholars exploring the connection between climate change and tort law have tended to ask what the latter can do about the former,” says Kysar. “With a few notable exceptions, they have answered, ‘Not much.’ This lecture will pose the inverse question: What can climate change do about tort law? As it turns out, the answer is, ‘Quite a bit.’”

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