Karen C. Sokol

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law

Professor of Law

7214 St. Charles Avenue, Box 901

New Orleans, LA 70118

United States

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Medical Malpractice Myths and Realities: Why an Insurance Crisis is Not a Lawsuit Crisis

A Center for Progressive Reform White Paper No. 509, June 2005, U of Texas Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 79, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 05-027, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 39, No. 2, p. 785, 2006
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 Oct 2005
Thomas Owen McGarity, Douglas A. Kysar and Karen C. Sokol
University of Texas at Austin - School of Law, Yale University - Law School and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
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The Underrecognized Role of Tort Law in the U.S. Healthcare System

32 Hamline Journal of Public Law and Policy 429 (2011), Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Research Paper No. 2011-13
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 08 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2019
Karen C. Sokol
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
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products liability, medical malpractice, consumer protection, public health

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Climate, Energy, Justice: The Policy Path to a Just Transition for an Energy-Hungry America

U of Houston Law Center 2021-W-1
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 04 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2021
Victor Byers Flatt, Shalanda Helen Baker, Daniel A. Farber, Robert L. Glicksman, Alice Kaswan, Alexandra B. Klass, Christine A. Klein, Joel A. Mintz, Dan Rohlf, Karen C. Sokol, Joseph P. Tomain, Sandra B. Zellmer, Sarah Krakoff, Uma Outka, Dave Owen, Alejandro E. Camacho and Hannah Jacobs Wiseman
University of Houston Law Center, Northeastern University - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, George Washington University - Law School, University of San Francisco - School of Law, University of Michigan Law School, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Nova Southeastern University, Lewis & Clark Law School, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, University of Cincinnati - College of Law, University of Montana - Alexander Blewett III School of Law, University of Colorado Law School, University of Kansas - School of Law, UC Hastings Law, University of California, Irvine, School of Law, Center for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources (CLEANR) and Penn State Law – University Park
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climate change, climate justice, energy, energy policy, climate policy, electricity, electricity policy, transportation

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Tort as a Disrupter of Cultural Manipulation: Neuromarketing & the Dawn of the E-Cigarette

66 South Carolina Law Review 91 (2014), Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Research Paper 2015-01
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 10 May 2014 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2015
Karen C. Sokol
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
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cognitive science, neuroscience, neuromarketing, torts, marketing, consumer law, electronic cigarettes

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From Surviving to Thriving: Equity in Disaster Planning and Recovery

U of Houston Law Center No. 2019-A-7, University of Hawai’i Richardson School of Law Research Paper No. 3340133
Number of pages: 120 Posted: 05 Mar 2019
Victor Byers Flatt, Alyson Flournoy, Karen C. Sokol, Robert R. M. Verchick, Rebecca M. Bratspies, Maxine Burkett, John D. Echeverria, Daniel A. Farber, David Flores, Evan Isaaceson, Alice Kaswan, Christine A. Klein, Sarah Lamdan, Joel A. Mintz, Sidney A. Shapiro, Joseph P. Tomain and Katie Tracy
University of Houston Law Center, University of Florida Levin College of Law, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, City University of New York - School of Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa - William S. Richardson School of Law, Vermont Law School, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Center for Progressive Reform, Center for Progressive Reform - CPR Policy Analyst, University of San Francisco - School of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, CUNY School of Law, Nova Southeastern University, Wake Forest University School of Law, University of Cincinnati - College of Law and Center for Progressive Reform
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environment, environmental law, disaster, disaster law, RCRA, CERCLA, Emergency Waiver, EPCRA,FEMA, Planning, Migration, Relocation, Resilience, Stormwater, NEPA, Stafford Act, climate, Environmental Justice

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The Evolution of Global Health Law in a Globalized World

The Global Community Yearbook of International Law & Jurisprudence, 2007 (I): 19-37
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 06 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2012
Allyn L. Taylor and Karen C. Sokol
Georgetown University Law Center and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
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public health, global health law, globalization

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The False Promise of Carbon Capture as a Climate Solution in Louisiana and Beyond

Center for Progressive Reform (2021), Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Research Paper No. 2021-12
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 15 Dec 2021
Karen C. Sokol, Robert R. M. Verchick and David Flores
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and Center for Progressive Reform
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carbon capture, environmental law, global warming, Paris Agreement, Glasgow Climate Pact

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Forging Global Rule of Law Through Litigation Against the United States and the Fossil Fuel Industry

4 Yearbook of International Disaster Law (Forthcoming 2022)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 03 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2022
Karen C. Sokol
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
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climate crisis, climate litigation, global governance, attribution, loss and damage, climate law, climate accountability

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Seeking (Some) Climate Justice in State Tort Law

95 Wash. L. Rev. 1383 (2020), Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Research Paper No. 2020-10
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 11 Nov 2020
Karen C. Sokol
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
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tort law, environmental law, climate change

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Smoking Abroad and Smokeless at Home: Holding the Tobacco Industry Accountable in a New Era

New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, Vol. 13, p. 81, 2010
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 09 Nov 2011
Karen C. Sokol
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
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The Possibility of Climate Manufacturing and the Need for Global Governance

The Global Community Yearbook of International Law & Jurisprudence; Global Trends: Law, Policy & Justice Essays in Honour of Professor Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo at 563 (Oxford University Press; M. Cherif Bassiouni et al. eds., 2013), Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Research Paper No. 2013-14
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 06 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2013
Karen C. Sokol
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
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climate change, geoengineering, climate change law and policy, global governance, social justice, international law, civil justice, tort law

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Legal Scholars Amicus Brief in Support of Plaintiff-Appellee in Delaware V. BP (Filed with Third Circuit Apr. 21, 2022)

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 May 2022
Karen C. Sokol
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
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climate disinformation, deceptive marketing, federal removal, fossil fuel industry disinformation, tort, consumer protection

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Rethinking Rights in the Age of the 'Anthropocene': The Potential of a Gandhian-Informed Jurisprudence for Forging Robust Environmental and Public Health Protections

The Global Community Yearbook of International Law & Jurisprudence 2016 at 133 (Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo ed., Oxford Univ. Press 2017), Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Research Paper 2017-13
Posted: 06 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2017
Karen C. Sokol
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law

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anthropocene, climate change, environmental law, public health, rights theory, Gandhi, satyagraha, ahimsa, Indian philosophy

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East Meets West in Civil Disobedience Theory and Beyond: Lessons from Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.

East Meets West in Civil Disobedience Theory and Beyond: Lessons from Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., in THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY YEARBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL LAW & JURISPRUDENCE 2015, at 125 (Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo ed., Oxford Univ. Press 2016)
Posted: 12 Dec 2016
Karen C. Sokol
Loyola University New Orleans College of Law

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civil disobedience, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., satyagraha, Edward Snowden