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Thursday, February 28 – 12:45 PM – Room 832

“Immigration Reform from the Free Market Perspective”
with Stuart Anderson, NFAP

Please join us in welcoming Stuart Anderson this coming Thursday.  He will be discussing the current state of our immigration regime and will suggest methods of reform, all from the perspective of the the free market and the advancement of individual liberty.

Stuart Anderson is Executive Director of the National Foundation for American Policy, a non-partisan public policy research organization focusing on trade, immigration, and related issued based in Arlington, VA.  From August 2001 to January 2003, Anderson served as Executive Associate Commissioner for Policy and Planning, and Counselor to the Commissioner at the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).  Before that, he spent nearly five years on Capitol Hill on the Senate Immigration Subcommittee, first for Senator Spencer Abraham, and then as Staff Director of the subcommittee for Senator Sam Brownback.  Anderson has served as Director of Trade and Immigration Studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., where he produced reports on the military contributions of immigrants and the role of immigrants in high technology.

Anderson holds an M.A. from Georgetown University and a B.A. in political science from Drew University.  He has published articles in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and other publications.  He is the author of the book Immigration (Greenwood, 2010).

The Federalist Society is a group of conservative and libertarian law students, lawyers, professors, and judges interested in the current state of the legal order.  We believe that the State exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of powers is central to the Constitution, and that it is the duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.  Most importantly, however, we believe that our legal system ought to concern itself foremost with the advancement of individual liberty.

For more information, please e-mail contact@bufedsoc.org.

Monday, October 29 – 1:00 PM – Room 1270

“Torts, Social Costs, and the Invisible Fist Theory”
with Walter Olson, Cato Institute

Judges and lawyers have helped to create a huge expansion in the size, number, and invasiveness of lawsuits in the hope that our legal system should become an “invisible” fist for social reform, a coercive force for social good.  But has this unleashing of litigation done cruel, grave harm and little lasting social good?  And what substantive reforms, especially in the realm of tort law, can help us strike a balance between seeking justice and controlling the floodgates of litigation?

Please join us in welcoming Walter Olson this coming Monday.  He will be addressing the foregoing questions, and many more, as he discusses “Torts, Social Costs, and the Invisible Fist Theory.”

Walter Olson is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies.  Formerly a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, Olson has been a columnist for Times Online as well as Reason.  His writing appears regularly in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the New York Post.  Olson frequently appears before Congress and on television, and has been dubbed by the Washington Post as the “intellectual guru of tort reform.” His approximately 400 broadcast appearances include all the major networks, CNN, Fox News, PBS, NPR, and “Oprah.”  Olson is the founder of Overlawyered.com, widely cited as the oldest blog on law as well as one of the most popular.

For more information, please e-mail contact@bufedsoc.org.

The recent Occupy protests have decried the alleged greed of Wall Street and demanded more regulations and taxes over American corporations. How does this demand for increased centralized governmental control impact the ability of businesses to grow and create jobs? Come out and hear Mr. O’Hare discuss the impact of governmental regulations on job creation and why corporations need to keep an entrepreneurial mindset as they grow.

There has been a menu change because Chipotle could not handle our catering order, so Qdoba will be served.

Remember to come to the Ilya Shapiro v. Kevin Outterson debate tomorrow, Thursday March 29th at 1 PM in Barristers Hall on Obamacare!

According to Reason’s coverage, Tuesday was a bad day for the Federal Government. According to Reason, the solicitor general had no answer for how healthcare differed from food or burial markets.

The arguments over the Obamacare mandate begin today (yesterday was an argument over whether the mandate was a penalty or tax for standing/procedural reasons).

Check out Reason’s coverage of the first day:

Alan Gura, the famed litigator from the recent watershed Heller and McDonald cases will be discussing Gun Rights today in Barristers Hall at 1 PM.

Lunch will be served.