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Knowing the Suffering of Others

March 30th, 2012

Welcome and Introduction
Dean Kenneth Randall
University of Alabama School of Law
Austin Sarat
Justice Hugo L. Black Visiting Senior Faculty Scholar, The University of Alabama School of Law and William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science Five College Fortieth Anniversary Professor, Amherst College

Session I
What Does the Law Say That Suffering Is?
Professor Linda Meyer, Quinnipiac School of Law

Moderator: Professor Meredith Render, The University of Alabama School of Law

Session III
Two Conceptions of Suffering in War

Professor John Witt, Yale Law School

Moderator: Professor Steven Hobbs, University of Alabama School of Law

Session IV 
Undoing and Suffering in Tort
Professor Gregory Keating, University of Southern California

Moderator: Professor Alan Durham, University of Alabama School of Law