Boston Regional Conference

By attending the conference, you will hear from top speakers in the libertarian movement, network with other pro-liberty students, discover countless opportunities for jobs, internships, conferences and seminars, and have a lot of fun with other students. This day-long event will feature tremendous speakers, panels, and breakout sessions on the ideas behind a free society and the actions necessary to implement them. In addition, three free meals and drinks at our evening social are included with your FREE registration. Don’t miss out on your chance to be a part of the student movement for liberty! Register today!

• Where: Boston University Law School, 765 Commonwealth Ave, Room 1270
• Host: Boston University Federalist Society
• When: November 3rd, 2012
• Conference: 9am – 8pm
• Social: 8pm – 10pm
• Cost: FREE of Charge

Lawrence W. Reed became president of FEE in 2008. He was a founder and president for twenty years of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Midland, Michigan. A champion for liberty, Reed has authored over 1,000 newspaper columns and articles, dozens of articles in magazines and journals in the U. S. and abroad, as well as five books. His articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Baltimore Sun, Detroit News and Detroit Free Press, among many others. His interests in political and economic affairs have taken him as a freelance journalist to 69 countries on six continents.

Lawrence W. Reed holds a B.A. degree in Economics from Grove City College (1975) and an M.A. degree in History from Slippery Rock State University (1978), both in Pennsylvania. He holds two honorary doctorates from Central Michigan University (Public Administration—1993) and Northwood University (Laws—2008). He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, chairman of the board of the Prometheus Institute, a member of the board of Just Facts, an advisor to numerous organizations around the world, and a weekly columnist for The Newnan Times-Herald, the local paper in Newnan, Georgia where he resides. His spare-time interests include reading, travel, fly-fishing, hiking, skydiving, and animals of just about any kind.

 

Professor Jeffrey Miron

Jeffrey Miron is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, as well as a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. His field of expertise is the economics of libertarianism; has advocated for many libertarian policies, including legalizing all drugs and allowing failing banks to go bankrupt. He has written four books including “Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition” and “Libertarianism, from A to Z.”

 

Professor Angela Dills 

Institute for Humane Studies Speaker Series

Angela Dills is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Providence College.  She has taught at summer programs sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies.  Her areas of research include the economics of education and the economics of crime.  Dills’ research has appeared inEconomic Inquiry, the Journal of Health Economics, the Economics of Education Review, Education Economics, the American Law and Economic Review, Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy,Economic Letters, Eastern Economic Journal, and Education Finance and Policy.  She earned her BA in Economics and Spanish at the University of Virginia and her M.A. and PhD in Economics from Boston University.

 

Sean Clark – Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

Sean Clark graduated from Penn State University in 2003 where he earned a B.A. in Political Science and a minor in History. As an undergraduate, he presided over Undergraduate Student Government Senate as its president, chaired the Student Organization Appeals Board, and served as vice-chairman and later as chairman of Penn State Young Americans for Freedom. In 2001, Sean became involved with FIRE when the foundation intervened on the behalf of YAF in a religious liberty dispute with the university. Sean first started with FIRE in 2005 as a Program Associate, later serving as a Program Officer and Assistant to the President and now manages the day-to-day operations of the FIRE office.

 

Professor Joshua Bandoch

Institute for Humane Studies Speaker Series

Joshua Bandoch (Ph.D. Political Science, University of Notre Dame, 2012) is a political theorist whose research and teaching interests include liberalism, multiculturalism, and the history of political thought. His dissertation argued for an approach to political theorizing called “political particularism” based on a new interpretation of Montesquieu’s political thought. His current book project offers an extended philosophical and historical analysis of this concept of political particularism.

Josh’s other research interests include exploring issues in multiculturalism and liberalism, as well as working at the intersection of political theory and public policy. His most recent publication on these themes is a forthcoming chapter entitled “On the Problem of Forming a European Spirit – Montesquieu’s De l’Esprit des lois (1748).”

 

Will Thomas – The Atlas Society

William R Thomas has a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of Michigan and is a lecturer in Economics at the University at Albany. Thomas is the editor of The Literary Art of Ayn Rand (2005), author of Radical for Capitalism, and is the co-author of the survey The Logical Structure of Objectivism. He is the program director of the Atlas Summit, oversees TAS scholarships programs, and regularly offers webinars on Objectivism.