Spring 2000 Advanced Torts Seminar: Comparative Products
The Washburn University School of Law 1999-2000 Advanced Torts Seminar continues during the Spring 2000 semester with an emphasis on Comparative Products. The seminar is conducted in cooperation with Shepard Broad Law Center at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Each two-week seminar provides students, faculty, and world-renown guest scholars gathered at both law schools the opportunity to interact live using up-to-date distance-learning conferencing technology. The first spring session from February 16-25, 2000 is titled Introduction to Comparative Products. Faculty include:
- Geraint Howells. Professor at Sheffield University. England, has acted as Consultant to the European Commission with respect to consumer protection and is the editor of the Consumer Law Journal. He has written several books.
- Tsuneo Matsumoto. Professor at Hitotsubashi in Japan, has a Masters of Law Degree from Kyoto University and has attended the Doctoral Course at Kyoto University. His areas of research specialities are civil law, consumer law and computer law.
- Philip A. Harley. A Washburn alumnus is of counsel with Kazan, McClain, Edises, Simon & Abrams, Oakland, CA. He has been admitted to practice in Kansas, Colorado and California and before various federal courts including the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Rogelio A. Lasso. Before joining the law faculty at Washburm, was in private practice in Chicago with Peterson & Ross and Holleb & Coff, where he participated in litigation ranging from medical malpractice and products liability to business disputes.
- M. Stuart Madden. Is Distinguished Professor at Pace University School of Law in New York. His scholarly emphasis is torts, products liability and environmental torts. He has authored and coauthored numerous articles, essays and books in these subjects.
The second spring session from March 29-April 7, 2000 is titled How Restatement 3d Differs From an Australian/Pacific Rim Approach to Products. Faculty include:
- Jane Stapleton. Is a professor at Australian National University. Her works include Disease and the Compensation Debate, Product Liability, edited volumes and articles concerning subjects such as the duty of care, the concept of 'damage' and causation.
- William C. Powers. Hines H. Baker & Thelma Kelly Baker Professor at University of Texas, has written Torts: Cases and Materials; Texas Products Liability Law, and Products Liability Law: Cases and Materials. He has written extensively in the area of product liability.
- James A. Henderson. Frank B. Ingerson Professor at Cornell, has written the following: The Torts Process (co-authored) and Products Liability: Problems and Process (with A. Twerski). He was Reporter of the Restatement of Torts (Third): Products Liability.
The Advanced Torts Seminars are made possible by the Ahrens Chair in Tort Law created by funds contributed to Washburn University School of Law in 1986 by the Wichita law firm of Michaud, Cordry, Michaud, Hutton and Hutton.
