Tentative Conference Schedule

Thursday, September 18, 2008:

8:45 Welcome
9:00 "Law and Emotion: Some Implications of a New Paradigm for Family Law" Kathryn Abrams, J.D.
Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law
Boalt Hall School of Law
University of California, Berkeley
9:45 Comments Gerald Clore, Ph.D.
Commonwealth Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
University of Virginia
10:00 General Discussion
10:15 Break
10:45 "What's Love Got to Do with It?: Insecurity and Anger in Attachment Relationships" Phillip R. Shaver, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
University of California, Davis
11:30 Comments Terry A. Maroney, J.D.
Assistant Professor of Law
Vanderbilt University Law School
11:45 General Discussion
12:00 Lunch
1:15 "Losing Perspective: Ego, Emotion, and Overreactions to Undesired Events" Mark R. Leary, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
Duke University
2:00 Comments Robert E. Emery, Ph.D.
Professor and Director of Center for Children, Families, and the Law
Department of Psychology
University of Virginia
2:15 General Discussion
2:30 Break
3:00 "Happy Families? Positive Psychology and Family Law" Clare Huntington, J.D.
Associate Professor of Law
University of Colorado Law School
3:45 Comments Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Virginia
4:00 General Discussion
4:15 Practice Panel To Be Announced
5:30 Refreshments and Informal Discussion



Friday, September 19, 2008:

8:45 Welcome
9:00 "Taking Account of Children's Emotions: Love, Anger & Forgiveness in 'Renegotiated Families'" Solangel Maldonado, J.D.
Professor of Law
Seton Hall Law School
9:45 Comments James A. Coan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Virginia
10:00 General Discussion
10:15 Break
10:45 "Forgiveness: Integral to Relationships and Inimical to Justice?" Frank D. Fincham, Ph.D.
Eminent Scholar and Director FSU Family Institute
Florida State University Family Institute
11:30 Comments Kathryn W. Bradley, J.D.
Senior Lecturing Fellow
Duke University School of Law
11:45 General Discussion
12:00 Conference Ends










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