What Does Our Legal System Owe Future Generations?
New Analyses of Intergenerational Justice for a New Century

Thursday and Friday, October 23 and 24, 2008
The George Washington University Law School 

Thursday, October 23, 2008

1:15pm to 1:30pm
Welcome and introductory remarks

• Dean Fred Lawrence
• Neil H. Buchanan

1:30pm to 2:45pm
Panel I:  “Philosophical Perspectives on Intergenerational Justice: Who, What, How, and Why?”

• Robert Tuttle – Moderator
• Robert Hockett – Presenter 1
• Ori Herstein – Presenter 2
• David DeGrazia – Commentator

3:00pm to 4:30pm

Panel II: “Government Finances Today and Economic Prosperity Tomorrow”

• Karen Brown – Moderator
• Neil H. Buchanan – Presenter 1
• Daniel Shaviro – Presenter 2
• Nancy Altman – Commentator
• Lawrence Zelenak – Commentator

4:30pm to 5:30pm
Reception  

5:30pm to 7:30pm
Dinner  

Friday, October 24, 2008

8:00am to 9:00am
Light Breakfast  

9:00am to 10:30am
Panel III: “Does the Earth Belong to the Living?  Property and Environmental Law Perspectives on the Rights of Future Generations”

• Amy Stein – Moderator
• Jamison Colburn – Presenter 1
• Matthew Adler – Presenter 2
• William Buzbee – Commentator
• Andrew Green – Commentator
• Douglas Kysar – Commentator

10:50am to 12:05pm
Panel IV: “The Impact of Reproductive Rights Today on the Composition of Future Generations”

• Naomi Cahn – Moderator
• Sherry Colb – Presenter
• Anne Couglin – Commentator
• Jill Hasday – Commentator
• Ann Shalleck – Commentator

12:15pm to 2:00pm
Lunch  

2:15pm to 3:45pm
Panel V: “The Living Constitution and Future Generations”

• Peter Smith – Moderator  
• Michael Dorf – Presenter 
• Sanford Levinson – Commentator
• Louis Seidman – Commentator

Final comments and farewell