Summer Seminars

Liberty & Society

For Undergraduates & Recent Graduates:

May 26-June 1 ● Wake Forest University, Winston–Salem, NC 

Daniel D’Amico

Economics, Loyola University
Daniel J. D'Amico’s dissertation, "The Imprisoner's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Proportionate Punishment," was awarded the Izrael M. Kirzner award for best dissertation on Austrian Economics. He is currently in the process of seeking publication for several of its constituent parts as well as continuing his ongoing research on the economics of crime and punishment. He participated in and conducted original field research with The Mercatus Center to investigate the effects of hurricane Katrina on the gulf coast region. »»

John Hasnas

Business, Georgetown University
John Hasnas teaches courses in ethics and law at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. He is currently working on a number of papers, including "The Centenary of a Mistake: One Hundred Years of Corporate Liability," "The Supreme Court and the Meaning of Life: A Legal and Philosophical Primer on the Right to Die," and "Reflections on Prince, Public Welfare Offenses, American Cyanamid, and the Wisdom of the Common Law." Previous works by Dr. Hasnas have appeared in publications such as the American University Law Review and the New York University Journal of Law & Liberty. »»

Mark Pennington

Political Economy, University of London
Mark Pennington’s main research interests center on Hayekian and public choice analyses of the regulatory state, with a particular focus on environmental policy. He has published two books on the political economy of the British system of environmental regulation; Planning and the Political Market: Public Choice and the Politics of Government Failure and Liberating the Land. »»

 

June 16-22 ● Chapman University, Orange County, CA

Tom W. Bell

Law, Chapman University
Tom W. Bell teaches intellectual property, Internet, entertainment, and commercial law courses at Chapman University. After graduating from law school, he entered private practice in Silicon Valley and Washington, DC. He then joined the Program in Law and Technology at the University of Dayton School of Law. While on academic leave from Dayton, Tom served as Director of Telecommunications and Technology Studies at the Cato Institute. »»

Brian Doherty

Senior Editor, Reason Magazine
Brian Doherty is a senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com. He wrote This is Burning Man (2004, Little, Brown; paperback BenBella, 2006), Radicals for Capitalism: A History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement (PublicAffairs, 2007), and Gun Control on Trial (Cato, 2008). From 1994 to 2003, Doherty worked as associate editor and reporter for Reason, writing a variety of stories on topics ranging from the Americans with Disabilities Act to pollution-credit trading to the independent rock scene. »»

Mark LeBar

Philosophy, Ohio University in Athens
Mark Lebar specializes in moral, social, and political philosophy. His published papers have covered ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of mind. Dr. Lebar is currently at work exploring the foundations of political obligations and authority according to Aristotelian moral theory. »»

 

July 7-13 ● Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, PA area

Joshua Hall

Economics, Beloit College
Josh is an assistant professor of economics at Beloit College.  He researches applied microeconomics, specifically state and local public finance and also economic education entrepreneurship and economic freedom. He primarily teaches principles of economics, intermediate micro, and public economics. Josh received his Ph.D. in economics from West Virginia University and graduate and undergraduate degrees in economics from Ohio University. He was formerly an economist for the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress.»»

David Hart

Director, Online Library of Liberty
David Hart is the director of Liberty Fund, Inc.'s online Library of Economics and Liberty. Dr. Hart began teaching in the Department of History at the University of Adelaide, South Australia in 1986, received the university teaching prize in 1992, and was tenured in 1994. Subjects taught and areas of graduate research supervised include modern European history, nineteenth-century classical liberal thought, the Enlightenment, war and culture, film and history, history and the Internet »»

James Stacey Taylor

Philosophy, The College of New Jersey
James Stacey Taylor teaches Bioethics, Ethics, Modern Philosophy, and various applied ethics and core philosophy courses. He spends a lot of time thinking and writing about autonomy—an area of philosophy that helps us understand when individuals are truly motivated by their own concerns, hopes, desires, and wills. »»

 

July 21-27 ● Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, PA area

Art Carden

Economics and Business, Rhodes College
Art Carden’s research interests include economic history, new institutional economics, development economics, applied labor economics, and microeconomics. His working papers include “Wal-Mart and Leisure Activities” (with Charles Courtemanche and Jeremy Meiners), “Inputs and Institutions as Conservative Elements,” and “Unequal Pay for Unequal Work in Antebellum America.” He has written for the American Review of Political Economy, the Review of Austrian Economics, and the International Journal of Social Economics, and contributed articles to the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. »»

David Hart

Director, Online Library of Liberty
David Hart is the director of Liberty Fund, Inc.'s online Library of Economics and Liberty. Dr. Hart began teaching in the Department of History at the University of Adelaide, South Australia in 1986, received the university teaching prize in 1992, and was tenured in 1994. Subjects taught and areas of graduate research supervised include modern European history, nineteenth-century classical liberal thought, the Enlightenment, war and culture, film and history, history and the Internet »»

Mark LeBar

Philosophy, Ohio University in Athens
Mark Lebar specializes in moral, social, and political philosophy. His published papers have covered ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of mind. Dr. Lebar is currently at work exploring the foundations of political obligations and authority according to Aristotelian moral theory. »»

David Schmidtz

Philosophy, University of Arizona
David Schmidtz has lectured at more than 50 universities, in 20 countries, on six continents. He is author of Rational Choice and Moral Agency, Elements of Justice, andPerson, Polis, Planet. He recently published, with Jason Brennan, A Brief History of Liberty. »»

 

For Graduate Students:

June 9-15 ● Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia, PA area

Andrew Cohen

Acting Director of the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics, Georgia State University
Andrew I. Cohen’s research interests are broadly focused in ethics and political philosophy. He has recently been working on whether citizens have reasons to support liberal political institutions, the value of democratic political institutions, and the ethics of friendship. He is the acting director of the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics at Georgia State University.»» 

Daniel D’Amico

Economics, Loyola University
Daniel J. D'Amico’s dissertation, "The Imprisoner's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Proportionate Punishment," was awarded the Izrael M. Kirzner award for best dissertation on Austrian Economics. He is currently in the process of seeking publication for several of its constituent parts as well as continuing his ongoing research on the economics of crime and punishment. He participated in and conducted original field research with The Mercatus Center to investigate the effects of hurricane Katrina on the gulf coast region. »»

David D. Friedman

Law, Santa Clara University Law School
Professor Friedman is a Professor of Law at Santa Clara University. He specializes include economics analytis of law, computers, crime, and privacy. He has published economic analyses of affirmative action, punitive damages, trade-secret law, and accident law. Friedman has also written on the topics of price theory, medical care, population economics, the economics of war, historical perspectives on freedom, and criminal defense. »»

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