Law Review Symposium - Stages of Fire: Mitigation, Adaptation, and Rebuilding

Schedule and Speaker List 

Registration and Continental Breakfast
9–9:30 a.m.

Welcome Remarks
9:30–9:40 a.m.
Dean Johanna Kalb
University of San Francisco School of Law

Opening Speaker - Fire Risk in Times of Climate Change
9:40-10:10 a.m.
Dr. David Saah
Director of Geospatial Analysis Law, University of San Francisco

Panel 1 - Mitigating Fire Disaster: Land Management and Human Settlement
10:10–11:40 a.m.

Moderator:
Amanda Riddle
Managing Partner, Corey, Luzaich, DeGetaldi, & Riddle LLP

Panelists:
Sara Clark
Partner, Shute, Mihaly, and Weinberger

Professor Shelley Ross Saxer
Laure Sudreau Endowed Chair in Law, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law 

Forest Schafer
Deputy Director, California Wildfire & Forest Resilience Task Force

Dr. William Siembieda
Professor Emeritus of CIty and Regional Planning, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Lunch 
11:40 a.m–12:45 p.m.

Panel 2 - Climate Change as a Driving Force in the Insurance Industry
12:45–2:15 p.m.

Moderator:
Duffy Magilligan
Partner, Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP

Panelists:
Amy Bach
Executive Director, United Policyholders

Deborah Halberstadt 
Special Advisor on Biodiversity and Inclusive Insurance, California Department of Insurance

Nancy Watkins
Principal and Consulting Actuary, Milliman Climate Resistance Initiative

Professor Michael Wara
Senior Research Scholar, Stanford Woods Institute for the Enviroment, Stanford University

Panel 3 - Rebuilding: Addressing the Tension between Rebuilding Quickly and Rebuilding Safely
2:30–3:45 p.m.

Moderator:
David Weiss
Partner, Reed Smith LLP

Panelists:
Elizabeth Hausler
Founder, Build Change

Professor Michael Méndez
Associate Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning, University of California, Irvine

Robert Verchick
Gauthier-St. Martin Eminent Scholar and Chair in Environmental Law, Loyola New Orleans Law School

Closing Remarks
3:45–4:00 p.m.

Reception
4:00–5:00 p.m.

Earn up to 4.5 CLE credit hours*

*This activity has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of 4.5 credit hours. The University of San Francisco School of Law is an approved provider of MCLE and certifies that this activity conforms to the standards for approved educational activities prescribed by the rules and regulations of the State Bar of California governing minimum continuing legal education.