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  • The Supreme Court: Past and Prologue: Annual B. Kenneth Simon Lecture: The Administrative Threat to Civil Liberties
    The Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies Presents a Symposium through the Generosity of George M. Yeager
    Cato's annual Constitution Day symposium marks the day in 1787 that the Constitutional Convention finished drafting the U.S. Constitution. We celebrate that event each year with the release of the new issue of the Cato Supreme Court Review and with a day-long symposium featuring noted scholars discussing the recently concluded Supreme Court term and the important cases coming up. Past speakers have included Judges Alex Kozinski, Diane Sykes, and Douglas Ginsburg, Professors Richard Epstein, Michael McConnell, and Nadine Strossen, and Supreme Court litigators Paul Clement, Neal Katyal, and Walter Dellinger.
    5:00—6:00PM
    ANNUAL B. KENNETH SIMON LECTURE: THE ADMINISTRATIVE THREAT TO CIVIL LIBERTIES
    Philip Hamburger, Maurice & Hilda Friedman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
    57 min
  • The Supreme Court: Past and Prologue: Panel IV: Looking Ahead: October Term 2017
    The Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies Presents a Symposium through the Generosity of George M. Yeager
    Cato's annual Constitution Day symposium marks the day in 1787 that the Constitutional Convention finished drafting the U.S. Constitution. We celebrate that event each year with the release of the new issue of the Cato Supreme Court Review and with a day-long symposium featuring noted scholars discussing the recently concluded Supreme Court term and the important cases coming up. Past speakers have included Judges Alex Kozinski, Diane Sykes, and Douglas Ginsburg, Professors Richard Epstein, Michael McConnell, and Nadine Strossen, and Supreme Court litigators Paul Clement, Neal Katyal, and Walter Dellinger.
    3:45—5:00PM
    PANEL IV: LOOKING AHEAD: OCTOBER TERM 2017
    Moderator: Ilya Shapiro, Editor-in-Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review
    Christopher Landau, Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
    Neal Katyal, Partner, Hogan Lovells
    Nina Totenberg, Legal Affairs Correspondent, NPR
    1 hr 15 min
  • The Supreme Court: Past and Prologue:Panel III: Property, Religious and Secular
    The Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies Presents a Symposium through the Generosity of George M. Yeager
    Cato's annual Constitution Day symposium marks the day in 1787 that the Constitutional Convention finished drafting the U.S. Constitution. We celebrate that event each year with the release of the new issue of the Cato Supreme Court Review and with a day-long symposium featuring noted scholars discussing the recently concluded Supreme Court term and the important cases coming up. Past speakers have included Judges Alex Kozinski, Diane Sykes, and Douglas Ginsburg, Professors Richard Epstein, Michael McConnell, and Nadine Strossen, and Supreme Court litigators Paul Clement, Neal Katyal, and Walter Dellinger.
    2:15—3:30PM
    PANEL III: PROPERTY, RELIGIOUS AND SECULAR
    Moderator: Walter Olson, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
    Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute
    Rick Garnett, Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Professor, University of Notre Dame Law School
    Thomas M. Hefferon, Partner, Goodwin Procter LLP
    1 hr 12 min
  • The Supreme Court: Past and Prologue: Panel II: Money and Crime
    The Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies Presents a Symposium through the Generosity of George M. Yeager
    Cato's annual Constitution Day symposium marks the day in 1787 that the Constitutional Convention finished drafting the U.S. Constitution. We celebrate that event each year with the release of the new issue of the Cato Supreme Court Review and with a day-long symposium featuring noted scholars discussing the recently concluded Supreme Court term and the important cases coming up. Past speakers have included Judges Alex Kozinski, Diane Sykes, and Douglas Ginsburg, Professors Richard Epstein, Michael McConnell, and Nadine Strossen, and Supreme Court litigators Paul Clement, Neal Katyal, and Walter Dellinger.
    1:00—2:15PM
    PANEL II: MONEY AND CRIME
    Moderator: Trevor Burrus, Research Fellow, Cato Institute
    David Goldberg, Lecturer in Law, Stanford Law School
    David Post, Professor of Law Emeritus, Beasley School of Law at Temple University
    Thaya Brook Knight, Associate Director, Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute
    1 hr 14 min
  • The Supreme Court: Past and Prologue: Welcoming Remarks, Introduction and Panel I: First Amendment Challenges
    The Cato Institute's Center for Constitutional Studies Presents a Symposium through the Generosity of George M. Yeager
    Cato's annual Constitution Day symposium marks the day in 1787 that the Constitutional Convention finished drafting the U.S. Constitution. We celebrate that event each year with the release of the new issue of the Cato Supreme Court Review and with a day-long symposium featuring noted scholars discussing the recently concluded Supreme Court term and the important cases coming up. Past speakers have included Judges Alex Kozinski, Diane Sykes, and Douglas Ginsburg, Professors Richard Epstein, Michael McConnell, and Nadine Strossen, and Supreme Court litigators Paul Clement, Neal Katyal, and Walter Dellinger.
    10:30—10:45AM
    WELCOMING REMARKSRoger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs and Director, Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato InstituteINTRODUCTIONIlya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies and Editor-in-Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review
    10:45—12:00PM
    PANEL I: FIRST AMENDMENT CHALLENGES
    Moderator: Ilya Shapiro, Editor-in-Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review
    Clay Calvert, Director, Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project, University of Florida
    Paul M. Sherman, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice
    Bob Corn-Revere, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
    1 hr 28 min
  • 40th Anniversary Sponsor e-Briefing Series: What Is the State of Global Freedom and Human Well-Being?

    What is the state of human freedom and progress around the world? If human well-being is getting better, why do so many people remain pessimistic?

    Evidence from academic institutions and international organizations shows dramatic improvements in human well-being. These improvements are especially striking in the developing world. Unfortunately, there is often a wide gap between the reality and public perception of human well-being. To make matters worse, the media emphasizes bad news, while ignoring many positive long-term trends.

    We think freedom is a big part of the story. Because freedom is inherently valuable and plays a role in human and economic progress, it is worth carefully tracking. Join Cato scholars to analyze the evolution of global freedom since the Institute's founding 40 years ago and explore the prospects for the next 40 years of expanding human freedom.

    The 40th Anniversary e-Briefing Series offers Cato Sponsors a special opportunity to engage with Cato's leadership and scholars as the Institute commemorates this milestone while also examining the future of liberty and achieving our mission of creating a free society.

    Forty years ago, the Cato Institute opened its doors as a new public policy research organization dedicated to liberty. Today, through our independent, nonpartisan research, worldwide events, vast online resources, and media outreach, Cato engages millions on the timeless principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. Cato's success is a testament to our Sponsors' commitment to the Institute and our work. Thank you for your continued support.

    Send any questions, comments, or other feedback to Harrison Moar at [email protected].

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    41 min
  • 40th Anniversary Sponsor e-Briefing Series: What Is the State of Global Freedom and Human Well-Being?
    What is the state of human freedom and progress around the world? If human well-being is getting better, why do so many people remain pessimistic?
    Evidence from academic institutions and international organizations shows dramatic improvements in human well-being. These improvements are especially striking in the developing world. Unfortunately, there is often a wide gap between the reality and public perception of human well-being. To make matters worse, the media emphasizes bad news, while ignoring many positive long-term trends.
    We think freedom is a big part of the story. Because freedom is inherently valuable and plays a role in human and economic progress, it is worth carefully tracking. Join Cato scholars to analyze the evolution of global freedom since the Institute's founding 40 years ago and explore the prospects for the next 40 years of expanding human freedom.
    The 40th Anniversary e-Briefing Series offers Cato Sponsors a special opportunity to engage with Cato's leadership and scholars as the Institute commemorates this milestone while also examining the future of liberty and achieving our mission of creating a free society.
    Forty years ago, the Cato Institute opened its doors as a new public policy research organization dedicated to liberty. Today, through our independent, nonpartisan research, worldwide events, vast online resources, and media outreach, Cato engages millions on the timeless principles of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. Cato's success is a testament to our Sponsors' commitment to the Institute and our work. Thank you for your continued support.
    Send any questions, comments, or other feedback to Harrison Moar at [email protected].
    41 min
  • From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship
    During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, political dictators were not only popular in their own countries, but were also admired by numerous highly educated and idealistic Western intellectuals. The objects of this political hero-worship included Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro and more recently Hugo Chavez, among others. Hollander will discuss the sources of these misjudgments and misperceptions, the specific appeals of particular dictators, and the part played by their charisma, or pseudo-charisma. He will shed new light not only on the political disposition of numerous Western intellectuals — such as Martin Heidegger, Eric Hobsbawm, Norman Mailer, Ezra Pound, Susan Sontag and George Bernard Shaw — but also on the personality of those political leaders who encouraged, and in some instances helped to design, the cult surrounding their rise to dictatorship.

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    1 hr 27 min
  • From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: Intellectuals and a Century of Political Hero Worship
    During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, political dictators were not only popular in their own countries, but were also admired by numerous highly educated and idealistic Western intellectuals. The objects of this political hero-worship included Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro and more recently Hugo Chavez, among others. Hollander will discuss the sources of these misjudgments and misperceptions, the specific appeals of particular dictators, and the part played by their charisma, or pseudo-charisma. He will shed new light not only on the political disposition of numerous Western intellectuals — such as Martin Heidegger, Eric Hobsbawm, Norman Mailer, Ezra Pound, Susan Sontag and George Bernard Shaw — but also on the personality of those political leaders who encouraged, and in some instances helped to design, the cult surrounding their rise to dictatorship.
    1 hr 27 min
  • A Conservative Approach to Smarter Federal Marijuana Policy

    The legal sale of recreational marijuana remains limited to a handful of states, but 29 states plus the District of Columbia allow the prescription and distribution of medical marijuana. Ten of those states—which represent 115 electoral votes—went for President Trump in the 2016 election. National polling shows that just over half of Americans favor marijuana legalization, but a much larger majority want the federal government to leave marijuana alone in states where it is legal.

    While candidate Trump promised to protect medical marijuana on the campaign trail, President Trump's Justice Department wants to be more aggressive against state-legal marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA). Ultimately, Congress holds the reins on the Department of Justice's ability to enforce particular provisions of the CSA and determines which substances should be under federal control.

    While marijuana decriminalization is often thought to be a Democrat-friendly topic, some of the best arguments for federal recognition of state marijuana policy rest in traditional Republican values of federalism, deference to local policy choices, and a limited federal government. Moreover, businesses that have no direct ties to cannabis cultivation or distribution like banks and financial institutions can benefit from clear federal rules that tolerate state-legal marijuana transactions.

    Join us for a lunchtime discussion to explore several ways Congress can reshape federal marijuana policy in a manner that is more consistent both with public opinion and the conservative values of limited government, federalism, and local policymaking.

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    39 min

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