About DSNLU:
Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University is a premier educational institution situated at “NYAYAPRASTHA” Sabbavaram 30 kilometers from Visakhapatnam the “City of Destiny”. It caters the needs of law students and research scholars from across the country. Its mission is to design and deliver legal education, promote academic achievement and excellence in legal research. The University offers 5 year integrated B.A. LL.B. (Hons) Degree and one year LL.M. program, Ph.D. and LL.D. The University has MOUs for student exchange programs with four Prestigious National Law Universities.
The objective of the University includes providing quality multi disciplinary education in legal studies keeping in view the demands of the global economy and the needs of the domestic society, to disseminate legal knowledge and legal process and their role in national development by organizing lectures, seminars, symposia, workshops and conferences. The University is committed to promote cultural, legal and ethical values with a view to promote and foster the rule of law and the objectives enshrined in the Constitution of India, and to improvise the ability to analyze and present for the benefit of the public contemporary issues of public concern and their legal implications etc.,
Mass torts create a unique scale of harm and liabilities. Corporate tort-feasors are desperate to settle claims but condition settlement upon resolution, of substantially all claims at a known price commonly referred to as a global settlement. Without this, corporate tort-feasors are willing to continue with protracted and fragmented litigation across jurisdictions. Global settlements can be elusive in these cases. Mass torts are oftentimes characterized by heterogeneous victim groups that include both current victims and future victim’s individuals whose harm have not yet manifested and may not do so for years. Despite this incongruence, future victim claims must be aggregated as part of any global settlement. This is the tragedy of the mass tort anti-commons: without unanimity, victim groups are unable to access settlement resources in a timely or meaningful way, but actual coordination across the group can be impossible.
In India the Bhopal gas tragedy is the classic example of mass torts. Current resolution structures have proven ill-equipped to address the novel challenges posed by mass torts. This Seminar will throw some light on re-conceptualization of how modern mass torts should be resolved and delivers an unprecedented normative construct focused on addressing anti-commons dynamics through statutory amendments to the existing laws. These changes, coupled with an evolved perspective on fundamental structural anomalies, are designed to improve predictability, efficiency, and victim recoveries.
Thus, it is important to stimulate scholarly debate of an overlooked trend that will reshape mass tort litigation in the upcoming decade. The search is on for new rules of law which would require those engaged in particular activities, especially hazardous ones, to bear collectively the operative cost including the distribution of losses consequent as a result of carrying on such activities. Chernobyl and Bhopal are not just significant events: they are dreaded words in the vocabulary of all industrial nations, words that mean that, technologically, the unthinkable can happen.
The Objective of the Seminar is to discuss:
- To provide a platform for scholarly discussion on Cases involve war-time herbicides, defective medical devices, countless pharmaceutical cases involving staggering side effects, severe personal injury, and product liability disputes.
- To analyze the key features of many mass tort cases, with particular emphasis on the profile of modern mass tort cases that have sought bankruptcy protection.
- To explore the dimensions of new species of mass tort litigation has evolved over the last 10 years including those involving the opioid crisis, sexual abuse involving non-religious entities, and product liability with significant latent injury risks.
- To draft a Vizag Declaration on Mass Torts.
Taking this perspective into account, the conference will include following sub themes:
- Mass Torts in a World of Settlement. Characteristics of property damage mass tort – Global Perspectives.
- Toxic Torts – An Overview.
- Theories of liability related to both toxic products and environmental pollution.
- Theories of liability: land-based claims.
- Liability for “take-home” toxins – Perspectives from USA
- Regulation of hazardous releases into the environment.
- Theories of liability related to both toxic products and environmental pollution with specific reference to mass disasters.
- Simple property damage mass torts – Perspectives from Europe.
- Economic loss mass torts – Leading Cases. Limited personal injury mass torts without latent harm – A Contentious Issue.
- Complex personal injury mass torts.
Eligibility
Seminar is open for academicians, researchers, practitioners, professionals, interested learners and students.
How to Register?
Interested candidates must register for the seminar through the link provided towards the end of this post.
Registration Fees
- Foreign Delegate – USD $150
- Student/Research Scholars – Rs.500
- Academicians – Rs. 1000
- Payment Details: Registrar, Damodaram Sanjivayya National Law University, Visakhapatnam; State: Andhra Pradesh; IFSC CODE: ANDB0002837; Branch: Waltair; MICR: 530011020; Branch Code: 000633; Account No: 283710100024089.
Important Dates
- Last date for submission of abstracts: December 15, 2022
- Last date for submission of full papers: December 30, 2022
- Date of the Event: January 7-8, 2023
Contact Information
In case of any queries, please contact mail nsb39mt2022[at]dsnlu.ac.in
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