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A Libertarian View of the Economic Crisis
Arkansas-Little Rock Student Chapter
February 6, 2012
Speakers:
- Professor Stephen Ware, Kansas Law
- TBA
Intellectual Property Practice Group Teleforum
February 6, 2012
On January 18, 2012, the Supreme Court upheld Congress’s power under the Patent and Copyright Clause to grant copyrights to foreign authors for their works that had been in the public domain in the United States, often for decades. Congress had granted these copyrights as part of the enabling legislation pursuant to the 1994 round of the GATT agreements, according to which the U.S. was arguably required to grant copyrights to foreign authors if the authors’ works were still in copyright in their home countries.
Our IP experts will discuss the case and whether the Patent and Copyright Clause of the Constitution should allow granting copyrights to existing, public domain works, and more generally, what limitations the IP Clause and the First Amendment place on Congress when it passes IP laws. They will also discuss how the challenged law in Golan affects incentives to create and distribute inventive and artistic works, and what type of future IP laws Congress might pass given the license granted it by the Court in this case.
Lewis & Clark Student Chapter
February 7, 2012
Speakers:
- Professor John Radsan, William Mitchell Law
- Professor Tung Yin, Lewis & Clark Law
Do Private School Vouchers Improve Education?
Rutgers-Newark Student Chapter
February 7, 2012
Speakers:
- Clint Bolick, Goldwater Institute
- Professor Paul Tractenberg, Rutgers-Newark Law
Virginia Student Chapter
February 7, 2012
Speakers:
- Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit
- Professor Lillian Bevier, Virginia Law
Conservatives, Libertarians, & Poverty
Harvard Student Chapter
February 7, 2012
Speakers:
- Peter Wehner, Ethics & Public Policy Center
- Professor Jeffrey Miron, Harvard University
- Professor Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard Law
Yale Student Chapter
February 7, 2012
Speaker:
- Peter Thiel, Clarium Capital
Debate on the Constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
The Piedmont Triad Lawyers Chapter
February 7, 2012
Speaker:
- Chris Bartolomucci, Partner, Bancroft PLLC
- Professor Mark Hall, Wake Forest University School of Law
- Justice Paul Newby (Moderator), North Carolina Supreme Court
Columbia Student Chapter
February 7, 2012
Speaker:
- Clint Bolick, Goldwater Institute
Citizens Divided: Should Congress Limit Money on Political Messages?
Northern Illinois Student Chapter
February 7, 2012
Speaker:
- Allison Hayward, Center for Competitive Politics
- Professor Mark Cordes, Northern Illinois Law
