Expert to Lecture at UA Law School on Legal Responses to Catastrophes

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — The University of Alabama School of Law will host Distinguished Visiting Lecturer Kenneth Feinberg at noon Tuesday, Sept. 29, in the Bedsole Moot Courtroom 140. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Feinberg is an expert in mediation and alternative dispute resolution. He has handled financial claims for major crises and disasters. He will lecture on “Unconventional Responses to Unique Catastrophes: Tailoring the Law to Meet the Challenges.”

Feinberg serves as the special master of the Federal Kline-Miller Law, where he oversees private pension plans. He has served as the special master for TARP Executive Compensation, the Federal Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund of 2001 and as the administrator of the Gulf Coast Claims Facility in 2010 for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

He served as a fund administrator for the GM Ignition Switch Compensation Program; the Virginia Tech massacre; the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shootings; the Sandy Hook Elementary shootings; and the Boston Marathon bombing. Feinberg has taught at Harvard University, Georgetown University, The University of Pennsylvania, New York University, the University of Virginia and Columbia University.

Details: Contact Monique Fields, manager of communications, UA School of Law, 205/348-5195, mfields@law.ua.edu.