Overview
Join UT Law Continuing Legal Education for the 25th Annual Admiralty and Maritime Law Conference!
The conference has returned to its regular timing and the popular location at The Houston College of Law (formerly South Texas College of Law).
Please note this will be the only opportunity to attend this conference until late 2017.
Please note this will be the only opportunity to attend this conference until late 2017.
Professors David Robertson and Michael Sturley open the program with their seminal overview of recent developments at the national level and in the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits. Program highlights include:
- David Gerger and Gregory Linsin present the government and defense perspectives on the Deepwater Horizon litigation and what to do when maritime and criminal law collide.
- Fifth Circuit Justice Edith H. Jones along with U.S. District Court judges Nancy K. Johnson and Gray H. Miller share their Judicial Insights into the Admiralty Practice
- A celebration of the judge John R. Brown Admiralty Moot Court Competition and its impact on the practice
- An exploration of cutting edge maintenance and cure issues, such as the implications of infectious disease and agricultural quarantines
- A review of the Jones Act’s impact on offshore oil and gas operations, including the application of specific CBP opinions to offshore operations and the practical implications the cabotage regulations.
- Bradley J. Jackson and the return of William J. Chriss to the interactive ethics favorite What to Do if Your Client is Misbehaving, Part VI – Return of the Gurus
This conference offers a unique opportunity for practitioners to get the latest on global and national developments affecting case law, contracts, and civil procedure, and to connect with members of the judiciary who hear their cases.
