Moderator

Maria Savasta-Kennedy Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Externship Program University of North Carolina School of Law

Environmental Panel
This panel will explore how environmental and climate change law is adapting to the dynamic environment emerging in our time. Environmental law is one of the leaders in considering adapting law to complex systems, and the panel will look at environmental legal dynamism and lessons for other legal areas.

	Alejandro Camacho Professor of Law University of California, Irvine School of Law		Holly D. Doremus Professor of Law University of California, Berkeley School of Law
	Victor B. Flatt Tom & Elizabeth Taft Distinguished Professor in Environmental Law Director, Center for Law, Environment, Adaptation, and Resources (CLEAR) University of North Carolina School of Law

Financial Regulation Panel
This panel will examine legal and regulatory responses to the increasing complexity and pace of financial innovation in the financial services sector. The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 brought the need for a comprehensive financial regulation reform to the forefront of public policy debate, both in the domestic context and internationally. The current wave of regulatory and legislative changes in this area, including the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in the U.S., aims to strengthen the financial system’s resiliency and stability. This panel will explore both the scope and potential effect of these changes and the broader regulatory challenges that still await their solutions.

	Douglas Arner Professor, The University of Hong Kong Director, Asian Institute of International Financial Law		Saule T. Omarova Assistant Professor of Law University of North Carolina School of Law
	Daniel Schwarcz Associate Professor of Law University of Minnesota Law School		David Zaring Assistant Professor of Legal Studies The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Criminal Law Panel
Legislators, judges, and prosecutors are continuously faced with the challenge of maintaining a justice system that must develop with, and adapt to, a rapidly evolving society. With the advent of new technology, the emergence of unforeseen criminal methods, and the constant evolution of prosecutorial discretion, policymakers must be careful to know when changes in the legal landscape require altering the status quo, and when to resist needless legislation and adhere to traditional notions of criminal theory. This panel will explore the challenges the changing social landscape presents to the criminal law, and explore the actions that need to be taken, as well as identifying actions that, while tempting, could prove unnecessary or even detrimental.

	Richard E. Myers II Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Associate Professor of Law University of North Carolina School of Law		Lisa Kern Griffin Professor of Law Duke University School of Law
	Ronald Wright Professor of Law Wake Forest University School of Law

Theoretical Panel
Unexpected challenges can threaten the goals of numerous legal regimes established to solve societal problems, casting doubt on the effectiveness, indeed the legitimacy,of law as a social instrument. Sometimes these challenges reflect the law’s internal blind spots, such as inattention to systemic risk or to the superior evolution of regulatory evasion viz regulatory enforcement. Other times, these challenges reflect surprises from the “outside” world that no one saw coming. Professor Donald Hornstein from UNC and Professor JB Ruhl from Florida State are two of the leading writers withinin the legal academy on applications of complexity theory to the law. In this Panel, they will discuss insights from complexity theory to questions of the law’s adaptability and resilience.

Donald Thomas Hornstein Aubrey L. Brooks Professor of Law University of North Carolina School of Law

J.B. Ruhl Matthews & Hawkins Professor of Property Florida State University College of Law