David G. Owen

Carolina Distinguished Professor of Law

Contact Information Room 318 USC School of Law 701 Main Street Columbia, South Carolina 29208 v 803-777-1411 f 803-777-8613 dowen@law.sc.edu

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Presentations

ADDRESSES (since 1990): American Tort Law Lectures, U. Navarra, Pamplona, Spain; The Third Restatement: Then and Now, U. Texas; Comparative Products Liability Law Lectures, Barcelona & Pisa; Impact of Daubert, AALS, D.C., SEALS, Palm Beach; Products Liability Law in the U.S. – Trends and Controversies, British Institute for International and Comparative Law, London; Information Shields in Tort Law, Pace Law School, White Plains, NY; Damages in American Tort Law, U. Florence, Italy; American Tort Law, Santa Anna U., Pisa, Italy; Global Products Liability Law, Santa Anna U., Pisa, Italy; Medical Experimentation Liability & American Products Liability Law, U. Göttingen, Germany; Restating Products Liability Law, London, England, ABA Appellate Judges Conf., Nova Scotia, & U. Tenn.; Design Defectiveness, U. Texas; Micro-Balancing Costs and Benefits, U. Mich.; Tort Reform in the Late 20th Century, The Conference Board, Wash., D.C.; Punitive Damages—History, Purposes, and Problems, U. Mich., & Villanova U.; U.S. Products Liability, Pisa, Brescia, Rome, & Waseda U., Tokyo; Moral Foundations of Products Liability Law, U. of Birmingham, London, Manchester, Oxford, Sheffield, Engl., Nat'l U. of Ireland, Galway, U. Ga., & Indiana U.; Prenatal Harm & Products Liability Reform, La. Judicial College, New Orleans; The Fault Pit, U. Ga.; Moral Foundations of Exemplary Damages, Oxford U.; Products Liability Principles of Justice, Dyson Lect., Pace U.; Tort Law in the 21st Century, Clifford Lecture, DePaul U.; Duty Rules, Vanderbilt U.; Doctrine and Principle at War, Pace U., N.Y.

ADDRESSES (1980-89) on doctrinal, policy, & philosophical aspects of tort law, products liability law, and punitive damages law at the National Academy of Engineering, Technical Institute of Vienna, Austria, National Innovation Workshop, Louisiana Judiciary, Conference on Public Participation in Risk Management, Yale University, Emory University, American Association of Law Libraries, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals Judicial Workshop, ABA, and AALS

TESTIMONY (1974-2003) on reform of tort law, products liability, and punitive damages, before U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. House of Representatives Commerce Committee, and before various state legislatures