About The Future of Law & Transportation
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This year’s Symposium will focus on the law, policy, and potential of transportation, an area that is growing increasingly important due to its connection to economic growth, public health, and climate change. The Symposium will, for the first time, convene a diverse group of scholars from multiple fields to discuss and produce scholarship on the past, present, and future of law and transportation from a variety of perspectives, including: land use, state and local government, environmental, administrative, tax, and tort law, as well as allied fields in the social sciences. Pieces from the Symposium will be published in Issue 5 of Vol. 106 of the Iowa Law Review.
Logistics
Faculty Organizer: Professor Gregory Shill
November 6, 2020
University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, IA
Held virtually via Zoom.
LINK TO RECORDINGS OF PRESENTATIONS: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe5uZagJ0M7840GEbZQROV-jrpTfsUL3o
Schedule
Friday, November 6
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8:30-8:45am: Welcoming Remarks & Introductions
Dean Kevin Washburn, N. William Hines Dean and Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law
IBL Center Director, Professor Jason Rantanen, Professor of Law, Ferguson-Carlson Fellow in Law, and Director of the Iowa Innovation, Business & Law Center, University of Iowa College of Law
Law Review Organizers and Hosts, Dana Waterman and Hayley Sherman, Editor-In-Chief and Symposium Editor, respectively, Iowa Law Review
Faculty Organizer and Host, Professor Gregory Shill, Associate Professor of Law, University of Iowa College of Law, and Affiliated Faculty Member, National Advanced Driving Simulator, University of Iowa College of Engineering
8:45-9:45am: Panel One - Transportation Planning & Land Use I
Professor Jonathan Levine, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Essay: Transportation Policy Entrenchment: Institutional Barriers to Accessibility-Based Planning
Professor Audrey McFarlane, Associate Dean of Faculty Research & Development and Dean Julius Isaacson Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law
Essay: Black Mobility and the Refusal of Funds: Structural Racism and Mass Transportation Decision-Making
Professor Sara Bronin, Thomas F. Gallivan Chair in Real Property Law and Faculty Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Law, University of Connecticut School of Law
Essay: The Failed Federalism of Street and Vehicle Design Standards
9:45-11:05am: Panel Two - Rights of Way & Public Space
Professor David Prytherch, Professor of Geography, Miami University, Department of Geography
Essay: Mobility Justice and the Public Right-of-Way: The Geography of Traffic Law and Design
Professor Jamila Jefferson-Jones, Associate Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law
Essay: #DrivingWhileBlack as #LivingWhileBlack
Professor Tara Goddard, Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, College of Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning
Essay: Not "Just Semantics": How the Language and Framing of Transportation Safety Shapes Perception and Practice
Professor Vanessa Casado Pérez, Associate Professor of Law, Texas A&M University School of Law, and Research Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M Department of Agricultural Economics
Essay: Reclaiming the Streets: Pedestrianization
11:05-11:15am: Short Break
11:15am-12:00pm: Keynote Address
Ms. Beth Osborne, Director, Transportation for America
12:00-12:45pm: Lunch (no programming)
12:45-1:45pm: Panel Three - Mobility, Segregation & Polarization
Professor Clayton Nall, Assistant Professor, University of California-Santa Barbara, Department of Political Science
Professor Deborah Archer, Associate Professor of Clinical Law and Co-Faculty Director, Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, New York University School of Law
Essay: Transportation Policy and the Underdevelopment of Black Communities
Professor Daniel Rodriguez, Harold Washington Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law
Essay: Road Wary: Transportation, Law, and the Problem of Escape
1:45-3:05pm: Panel Four - Transportation Planning & Land Use II
Professor Janice Griffith, Professor of Law, Suffolk University School of Law
Professor Noah Kazis, Legal Fellow, New York University Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, New York University School of Law and the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Essay: Transportation, Land Use, and the Sources of Hyper-Localism
Professor Kenneth Stahl, Professor and Director, Environmental Land Use and Real Estate Law Program, Chapman University, Dale E. Fowler School of Law
Essay: Integrating Transportation Policy into the Land Use Curriculum
Professor Darien Shanske, Professor of Law, University of California-Davis School of Law (co-author: Professor Deb Niemeier, Clark Distinguished Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland A. James Clark School of Engineering)
Essay: Subsidizing Sprawl, Segregation and Regressivity: A Deep Dive into Sublocal Tax Districts
3:05-3:15pm: Short Break
3:15-4:00pm: Keynote Address
The Honorable Ray LaHood, 16th U.S. Secretary of Transportation
4:00-4:40pm: Panel Five - Transportation & Finance
Professor Pamela Foohey, Professor of Law, Indiana University-Bloomington, Mauer School of Law
Essay: Bursting the Auto Loan Bubble in the Wake of COVID-19
Professor Randall Johnson, Professor of Law and Director of the Public Service Law Center at Mississippi College, Mississippi College School of Law
Essay: Why Illinois Should Eliminate Its Video Tolling Subsidy