Events & Activities


2009-2010 Events (Updated Regularly, All Events Will have FREE LUNCH!)

 
SpeakerDate, Time LocationTopicCo-Sponsoring OrganizationFormat
Jonah Goldberg
Journalist, National Review
Author, Liberal Fascism: A Secret History of the American Left From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
Monday, 9/28/09
7PM-8:30PM
FPG Student Union, UNC Main Campus
Liberal Fascism
UNC College Republicans and Young America's Foundation
Speech
David Hyman
University of Illinois College of Law, Richard W. and Marie L. Corman Professor; Director, Epstein Program in Health Law and Policy

Cato Institute, Adjunct Scholar

Author, Medicare Meets Mephistopheles

Thursday, 10/15/09
11:50AM-1PM
Room 5048
Health Care Reform: Why Less Government, Not More, Is The Answer
N/A
Speech with commentary from UNC Professors Joan Krause and Richard Saver
Fred L. Smith, Jr.
President and Founder, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Wednesday, 10/28/09
11:50AM-1PM
Room 5046
Regulation and the Financial Crisis
N/A
Speech with commentary from UNC Professor Lissa Broome
Arnold Loewy
Texas Tech University School of Law, George R. Killam Jr. Chair of Criminal Law

(UNC Law Professor for 38 years)

Thursday, 11/12/09
11:50AM-1PM
Room 5046		The Two Faces of Insanity: On the Criminal Insanity Defense
N/A
Debate with UNC Professor Michael Corrado
Alan Gura
Gura & Possessky, PLLC
Lead counsel for plaintiffs in DC v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago
Monday,
11/16/09
11:50AM-2:00PM
Room 4085
Gunning For Slaughter-House:  Incorporation of the 2nd Amendment Via Reviving the Privileges or Immunities Clause
N/A
Speech

Past Events

 
SpeakerDate, Time LocationTopicCo-Sponsoring OrganizationFormat

Clark Neily -
Institute for Justice

Wednesday,11/5/08; Noon-1:00

Room 4085

School Choice and Religious Discrimination

N/ASpeech
Walter Olson - The Manhattan Institute

Wednesday, 11/12/08; Noon-1:00

Room 4082

Dentists, Bartenders and Lawyer UnpopularityN/A

Speech

 

Manuel Miranda - Former Counsel to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist

 

Thursday, 1/22/09;    Noon-1:00

Room 5042

The Obama Presidency and the Fight for the CourtsTBASpeech
Ward Connerly - American Civil Rights Institute

Tuesday, 2/3/09;       Noon-1:00

Room 4085

Legacy: Creating Equality and Affirmative ActionYoung America's FoundationSpeech
Hal Stratton - Former Chairman of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission

Wednesday, 2/11/09; Noon-1:00

Room 3049

How To Run a Regulatory Agency As A Free MarketerN/ASpeech

Professor John McGinnis - Northwestern School of Law

 

Thursday, 2/19/09;           Noon-1:00

 

Room 4085

Originalism - Four defenses of originalist constitutional interpretation

Featuring Special Guest - Professor Michael Gerhardt

N/ADiscussion

Federalist Society Elections and Viewing Party of John Stossel's 2008 Politically Incorrect Guide to Politics

 

Thursday 2/26/09;            Noon-1:00

Room 4082

Vote for 2009-10 Board, Eat great food and enjoy John Stossel's Awesome Special ReportN/AParty!

Roger Pilon - Vice President of Legal Affairs of the Cato Institute

 

Monday 3/2/09;       Noon-1:00

Room 4085

Are Property Rights Opposed to Environmental Protection

Featuring Special Guest - UNC Professor Donald Hornstein

N/ADebate

Randy Barnett - Georgetown School of Law and author of Contracts and Constitutional law textbooks

 

Monday 3/30/09;     Noon-1:00

 Room 4085

Was Lochner Right?  Natural Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment

 

N/ASpeech

Terry Eastland- Publisher of The Weekly Standard

 

Wednesday, 4/8/09; Noon-1:00

Room 4082

Race and Religion in the Age of Obama

Featuring Special Guest - UNC Professor Bill Marshall!

N/ASpeech w/ Commentary

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