Unconventional Responses to Unique Catastrophes: Tailoring the Law to Meet the Challenges
I want to thank the Dean at the outset. He says I know a lot about opera and baseball. I guess it was obstruction when he slid into third base. I mean, it doesn’t require any mens rea, so it is a strict liability offense. So if the runner is impeded, that’s the end of it I guess.
Everybody seemed to think it was the right call, but I don’t know who will win the World Series. But I want to thank the Dean for those kind words. I want to thank Roe Green for her philanthropy, for so much that she does to validate the memory of her father, and I hope that in some small way my work and what I do exemplifies what Ben stood for as a judge and as a man.
And I am honored actually to be here today to deliver the endowed Ben Green lecture. I didn’t realize until the Dean introduced me that I am laboring under some real stress since it is the last lecture of the Ben Green endowed series.
So it better be good, and I better be on my “A” game today during the next half hour to forty minutes. So I will do my best to vindicate the judge and you and the law school.