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2011

Answering the Critics of Comprehensive Immigration Reform (5/20/11)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Stuart Anderson, Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute; and Frank Sharry, Executive Director, America's Voice; moderated by Laura Renz, Government Affairs Manager, Cato Institute.


The Case for Marriage Equality: Perry v. Schwarzenegger (5/18/11)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring the co-counsels, David Boies, Chairman, Boies, Schiller & Flexner and Former Chief Counsel, Senate Judiciary Committee; and Theodore B. Olson, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Former Solicitor General. With comments by the co-chairs of the advisory board of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, Robert A. Levy, Chairman, Cato Institute; and John Podesta, President, Center for American Progress.


Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression (5/17/11)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Douglas A. Irwin, Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College; with comments by Daniel Griswold, Director of the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute.


Leashing the Surveillance State: How to Renew and Reform Patriot Act Surveillance Authorities (5/16/11)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Julian Sanchez, Research Fellow, Cato Institute; David Rittgers, Legal Policy Analyst, Cato Institute; and Mike German, Senior Policy Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union; moderated by Brandon Arnold, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute


Why Are We at War in Libya? (5/13/11)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Benjamin Friedman, Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by Brandon Arnold, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.


America's Allies and War: Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq (5/10/11)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Jason W. Davidson, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Mary Washington; with comments by Charles Kupchan, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations and Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University; moderated by Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute.


The Moral Implications of Deficits, Debt, and the Budget Battles Ahead (5/9/11)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Amitai Etzioni, University Professor, George Washington University; and Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute; moderated by David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute.


The Arab Awakening and Its Implications (5/5/11)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring David Ottaway, Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Zainab Al-Suwaij, Executive Director, American Islamic Congress; and Stanley Kober, Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Steven A. Cook, Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; moderated by Malou Innocent, Foreign Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.


Climate Coup: Global Warming's Invasion of Our Government and Our Lives (5/4/11)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, MIT; Bob Ryan, Fellow and past president of the American Meteorological Society and meteorologist for WJLA / ABC 7 News; moderated by Patrick J. Michaels, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, and editor of Climate Coup.


Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform (5/2/11)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author David E. Bernstein, George Mason University School of Law; with comments by Louis Michael Seidman, Georgetown University Law Center; and Gregory E. Maggs, George Washington University School of Law; moderated by Roger Pilon, Cato Institute.


The Future of Chinese Land Rights (4/29/11)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum. featuring Roy Prosterman, Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Landesa; and Keliang Zhu, Attorney, China Team, Landesa; with comments by Xiaobo Zhang, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute; moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.


The Constitution of Liberty: The Definitive Edition (4/28/11)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring Bruce Caldwell, editor The Collected Works of F.A. Hayek; Richard Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University Law School; George Soros, Founder and Chairman, Open Society Foundations; moderated by Ronald Hamowy, Fellow in Social Thought, Cato Institute.


The False Promise of Green Energy (4/21/11)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the coauthor Andrew Morriss, Professor of Law and Business, University of Alabama; with comments by Kate Gordon, Vice President for Energy Policy, Center for American Progress; moderated by Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.


Civil Resistance and Revolution in the Arab World (4/18/11)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Peter Ackerman, Founding Chair, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, Coauthor, A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict; and Jack Goldstone, Hazel Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University Editor, The Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions; moderated by David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute.


America's Transportation Future (4/15/11)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Alan Pisarski, author of Commuting in America; Clyde Hart, Senior Vice President for Government Affairs, American Bus Association; and Randal O'Toole, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute and author, Gridlock: Why We're Stuck in Traffic and What to Do About It; moderated by Brandon Arnold, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.


ObamaCare: What a Difference a Year Makes (4/14/11)
A Cato Institute City Seminar featuring Robert A. Levy, Chairman, Cato Institute; Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute, and Coauthor, Healthy Competition: What's Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.


Cato Club Naples - ObamaCare: What a Difference a Year Makes (4/13/11)
A Cato Institute City Seminar. By invitation only.


Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2011 (4/8/11)
A Cato Institute City Seminar.

Featuring: Edward H. Crane, President, Cato Institute; Walter Olson, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Michael Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Tad DeHaven, Budget Analyst, Cato Institute; and Charles Murray.


The Economic Impact of Government Spending (4/7/11)
A Cato Institute Conference.

Featuring Senator Bob Corker (R-TN); Senator Mike Lee (R-UT); Representative Kevin Brady (R-TX), Vice Chairman, Joint Economic Committee; Vito Tanzi, Honorary President of the International Institute of Public Finance; former Director of the Fiscal Affairs Department, International Monetary Fund; Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Ohio University, Adjunct Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Daniel Mitchell, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; Phil Gramm, UBS Investment Bank; former U.S. Senator from Texas.


The War in Libya: What Is the Role of Congress? (4/5/11)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Representative Tom McClintock (R-CA); Gene Healy, Vice President, Cato Institute; and John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute; moderated by Brandon Arnold, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.


Beyond Exports: A Better Case for Free Trade (3/24/11)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Daniel J. Ikenson, Associate Director, Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Scott Lincicome, International Trade Attorney, White & Case, LLP; and Donald J. Boudreaux, Professor, George Mason University Department of Economics and Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute; moderated by Brandon Arnold, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.


A Government Thumb on the Election Scale? (3/22/11)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Nick Dranias, Director, Center for Constitutional Government, Goldwater Institute; and David H. Gans, Director, Human Rights, Civil Rights, and Citizenship Program, Constitutional Accountability Center; moderated by Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute.


The New Health Care Law: What a Difference a Year Makes (3/21/11)
A Cato Institute Conference. David Rivkin, Partner, Baker & Hostetler LLP, and attorney for plaintiffs in Florida v. HHS; Moderated by Ramesh Ponnuru, Senior Editor, National Review; Michael F. Cannon, Director of Health Policy Studies, Cato Institute; Ron Pollack, Executive Director, Families USA; Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President, American Action Forum; former Director, Congressional Budget Office; Kavita Patel, M.D., Managing Director of Delivery-System Reform at the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform, Brookings Institution, former Director of Policy for the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, and former Deputy Staff Director for the Senate HELP Committee chairman Senator Edward Kennedy; Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute; Neera Tanden, Chief Operating Officer, Center for American Progress. Moderated by Jan Crawford, CBS News Chief Legal Correspondent.


Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea (3/16/11)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author C. Bradley Thompson, Clemson University; with comments by Tod Lindberg, Hoover Institution; moderated by David Boaz, Cato Institute.


Cato Club Naples: How to Tame the Federal Budget (3/10/11)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum. By invitation only.


Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy (3/8/11)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Mark Pennington, Professor of Politics, University of London; moderated by David Boaz, Executive Vice President, Cato Institute.


Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America (3/3/11)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Walter Olson, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; with comments by Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; moderated by Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute.


Reforming America's Health Care System: The Flawed Vision of ObamaCare (3/2/11)
A Cato Institute Book Forum.

Featuring contributor Grace-Marie Turner, Galen Institute; with comments by Len Nichols, Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics, George Mason University; and Michael F. Cannon, Cato Institute.


23rd Annual Benefactor Summit (2/24-27/11)
A Cato Institute Conference. By invitation only.


Is Dodd-Frank Constitutional? (2/15/11)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Mark Calabria, Director of Financial Regulatory Studies, Cato Institute; Hon. C. Boyden Gray, Former White House Counsel; Timothy R. McTaggart, Partner, Pepper Hamilton LLP, and former Delaware State Bank Commissioner; moderated by Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute.


Restoring Limited Constitutional Government Starts with Congress (2/10/11)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ), Founder and Chairman, Congressional Constitution Caucus; and Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, and Director, Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute; moderated by Brandon Arnold, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.


Cato Institute Policy Perspectives 2011 (2/9/11)
A Cato Institute City Seminar.


Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream (2/8/11)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author Christopher Whalen, Institutional Risk Analytics; with comments by Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research; and Alex Pollock, American Enterprise Institute; moderated by Mark Calabria, Cato Institute.


Cloning "Superman": What Other Countries Already Know about Scaling Up Good Schools (1/28/11)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Peje Emilsson, Founder, Kunskapsskolan, Sweden; Humberto Santos, Researcher, Instituto de Políticas Públicas, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile; and Sarah Sparks, Journalist, Education Week; moderated by Andrew Coulson, Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute.


Location-Tracking Technology and Privacy (1/26/11)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR); Julian Sanchez, Research Fellow, Cato Institute; and Jim Harper, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute.


The Future of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (1/20/11)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Alan Gura, Partner, Gura & Possessky, P.L.L.C.; Dennis Henigan, Vice President, Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence; Nelson Lund, Professor, George Mason University Law School; and Alan B. Morrison, Professor, The George Washington University Law School; moderated by Roger Pilon, Director, Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute.


The 112th Congress and Military Spending (1/19/11)
A Cato Institute Capitol Hill Briefing featuring Benjamin Friedman, Research Fellow in Defense and Homeland Security Studies, Cato Institute; Christopher Preble, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute; and Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform, and Member, Board of Directors, The Nixon Center; moderated by Kurt Couchman, Manager of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.


Liberty of Contract: Rediscovering a Lost Constitutional Right (1/18/11)
A Cato Institute Book Forum.


The Military-Industrial Complex at 50: Assessing the Meaning and Impact of Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1/13/11)
A Cato Institute Conference.


Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life (1/12/11)
A Cato Institute Book Forum featuring the author, Nicholas Phillipson, Honorary Research Fellow in History, University of Edinburgh; and James R. Otteson, Professor of Philosophy and Economics, Yeshiva University, Charles G. Koch Senior Fellow, The Fund for American Studies. Moderated by John Samples, Director, Center for Representative Government, Cato Institute.


Fiscal Undertow: How Public Schools Are Drowning State and Local Budgets, and What to Do about It (1/11/11)
A Cato Institute Policy Forum featuring Patrick Byrne, CEO, Overstock.com, and Chairman, The Foundation for Educational Choice; Kil Huh, Director of Research, Pew Center on the States; and Adam Schaeffer, Policy Analyst, Cato Center for Educational Freedom; moderated by Robert Enlow, President, Foundation for Educational Choice; with introductions by Neal McCluskey, Associate Director, Cato Center for Educational Freedom.

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