2013 Subjective Well-Being and Law Conference
June 25-26, 2013

Schedule

Day One

12:00-1:00 Lunch, Welcome, and Opening, Peter Huang, Corie Rosen Felder
When Empathy Fails: Blindness to Desensitization and Adaptation in Emotional Perspective Taking Leaf Van Boven

1:15-2:00 Positive Law: Research and Applications of Positive Psychology in Legal Education and Practice Alexis Karris Bachik

2:15-3:00 What is Well-Being, and Why Should the Field of Law Care? Michael Steger

3:15-4:00 Bottom-Up Influences on Subjective Well-Being Christopher Lowry

4:15-5:15 SWB and Law 1:
Should Competition Policy Promote Happiness? Maurice Stucke
Happiness and Civil Damages -- The Distributive Dimension David DePianto
The Trouble With Happiness Rick Swedloff

6:30 Dinner

Day Two

9:00-10:00 Continental breakfast (no speakers)

10:00-11:00 SWB and Law 2:
Mental Health and Well-Being in Aspiring Lawyers: An Empirical Investigation Brian Bornstein
Joshua Rosenberg

11:15-12:15 A 'Personal' Sense of Justice: Mindful Self-Compassion as a Foundation for Well-Being in Legal Education Rhonda Magee
Richard Reuben

12:15-1:15 Lunch, Thank You, and Closing, Peter Huang, Corie Rosen Felder
What Makes Things Funny? Implications for Morality, Good Manners and Well-Being Peter McGraw