Magna Carta: Then and Now

  On November 6, 2015, Mervyn Allister King KG, GBE, FBA, Professor of Economics and Law at New York University School of Law, delivered a keynote address commemorating the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta on November 6, 2015. “Magna Carta: Then and Now” examined the past, present, and future of the Magna Carta in the political […]

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Whistleblowing and Corporate Change

Whistleblowing and Corporate Change Tuesday, October 20, 2015, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South, New York, NY On Tuesday, October 20, 2015, the NYU Journal of Law & Business and The Classical Liberal Institute held a conference on “Whistleblowing and Corporate Change” at New York University School of Law.  Experts from law […]

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The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain

On Tuesday, September 15, 2015, Professor Ilya Somin visited NYU Law to speak about his new book, The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain. Professor Richard Epstein provided commentary.  This event was co-sponsored with the NYU Federalist Society.   Ilya Somin is a Professor of Law at George Mason University […]

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The Eleventh Annual Hayek Lecture

At the 11th annual Friedrich A. von Hayek Lecture, Douglas Ginsburg, senior judge of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, delivered “Illiberal Administrative Law,” a robust rejoinder to a recent article by two Harvard Law professors criticizing what they consider to be the DC Circuit’s shift to the right. Published […]

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Symposium on Economic Liberties and State Constitutions

The NYU Journal of Law & Liberty and Institute for Justice invite you to attend this first event of its kind. There has been a tremendous amount of scholarly attention devoted to both state constitutional law and economic liberties over the last few decades. Beginning on the one hand with Justice Brennan’s 1978 Harvard Law Review article State […]

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The Affordable Care Act in 2015

The Classical Liberal Institute, along with the New York University Journal of Law and Liberty, held a symposium on the Affordable Care Act in March of 2015. The symposium featured three panels on current issues surrounding the ACA, including Hobby Lobby and the contraceptive mandate, the King v. Burwell case, and concrete plans for continued health reform. […]

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The Ends of Capitalism

On Thursday, February 26 and Friday, February 27, 2015, CLI hosted The Ends of Capitalism, featuring experts across multiple academic disciplines participating in a broad-ranging discussion and evaluation of capitalism. The conference focused on philosophical, legal, social and economic issues from the moral basis of the system to specific issues like income distribution, intellectual property […]

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Spontaneous Order and Emergence of New Systems of Property

On November 14th and 15th, CLI hosted a symposium on property rights, Spontaneous Order and Emergence of New Systems of Property. The symposium hosted leading scholars from fields in law and economics as they presented works in progress on the emergence of spontaneous property rights systems, with special emphasis on the United States and China. A range […]

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The Tenth Annual Friedrich A. Von Hayek Lecture

On October 16, 2014, CLI sponsored the Tenth Annual Friedrich A. von Hayek Lecture, featuring Thomas W. Merrill, Charles Evans Hughes Professor of Law at Columbia Law School on “Possession as a Natural Right.” Trevor Morrison, Dean and Eric M. and Laurie B. Roth Professor of Law, NYU Law, Richard Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor […]

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