Program for a conference held in Concord, NH, Oct. 6-7, 1994. Sponsored by the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, the Ethical, Legal and Social Issues component of the Department of Energy Human Genome Project, Dartmouth College and Franklin Pierce Law Center. It was co-chaired by Arthur Kantrowitz and Tom Field.

This conference led to the formation of the Risk Assessment and Policy Association (RAPA), a professional association devoted to such topics. Highlighted titles, below, are linked to online copies of papers as subsequently published in Risk. Registered conferees are also listed below. An annotated index to papers from this and a related Risk symposium is also available.

• Robert M. Viles, Welcome

• The Challenge

  • Arthur Kantrowitz, The Separation of Facts and Values
  • Peter W. Huber, Coping with Phantom Risks in the Courts
  • Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette, Evaluating the Expertise of Experts
  • Sidney A. Shapiro, Resolving Technological Controversies in Regulatory Agencies

• Selected Experience

  • Itzhak Jacoby, Resolving Medical Controversies
  • Norman L. Balmer, Alternative Dispute Resolution in Patent Controversies

• Innovations Under Consideration

  • Jeffrey S. Lubbers, Regulatory Reform Recommendations of the National Performance Review: An Overview
  • Dalton G. Paxman, Congressional Risk Proposals
  • Albert A. Scherr, Scientif c Disputes in the Courts: The Forensic DNA Experience

• Process Alternatives

  • Rena I. Steinzor, ADR in Technology-Based Legislative Controversies
  • Allan Mazur, A Candidate for a "Science Court"
  • Thomas G. Field, Jr., Scientific Arbitration Panels

Registered Conferees

• Norman L. Balmer; Chief Patent Counsel, Union Carbide Corporation
• Johnathan Bender; Carnegie Commission, Science, Technology & Government
• Professor Halina S. Brown; Chair, Environment, Technology & Science Program, Clark University
• Professor George Cybenko; Dartmouth College
• Professor Charles L. Drake; Dartmouth College
• Professor Thomas G. Field, Jr.; Franklin Pierce Law Center
• Professor Lawrence Haworth; University of Waterloo
• Peter W. Huber; Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
• Professor Itzhak Jacoby; Director, Division of Health Serv. Admin., F. E. Hebert School of Medicine
• Professor Arthur Kantrowitz; Dartmouth College
• Jennifer A. Kispert; Franklin Pierce Law Center
• Jeffrey S. Lubbers; Research Director, Administrative Conference of the U.S.
• Professor Frank X. Masse; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Professor Donald R. Mattison; Dean, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health
• Professor Allan Mazur; Maxwell School, Syracuse University
• Professor Andre A. Moenssens; West Virginia College of Law
• Professor Paul J. Ossenbruggen; University of New Hampshire
• Chris Paterson; Policy Associate, Northeast Center for Comparative Risk
• Dr. Dalton Paxman; Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Technology Assessment
• Professor Sheldon J. Reaven; State University of New York, Stony Brook
• Marie C. Rounding; Chair, Ontario Energy Board
• Professor Michael Rustad; Suffolk University Law School
• Professor Michael J. Saks; University of Iowa School of Law
• Professor Albert A. Scherr; Franklin Pierce Law Center
• Professor Sidney A. Shapiro; University of Kansas School of Law
• Professor Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette; University of South Florida
• Professor Rena I. Steinzor; Director, Environmental Law Clinic, University of Maryland College of Law
• Professor Peter L. Strauss; Columbia University School of Law
• William A Thomas; Vice President, Environmental Safety & Quality Assurance, Oak Ridge Associated Universities
• Professor Jeanette M. Trauth, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health

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