Cato University Schedule

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Schedule Outline

Subject to change

Sunday, July 24
3:00pm – 6:00pm	Registration
6:30pm – 7:30pm	Reception
7:30pm – 9:00pm	Dinner with speaker, Tom Palmer, "The Science of Liberty"

Monday, July 25
8:00am – 9:00am	Continental Breakfast
9:00am – 10:30am	Donald Boudreaux, "Market Exchange and the Foundations of Prosperity"
10:30am – 10:45am	Refreshment Break
10:45am – 12:15pm	Tom Palmer, "Sociology of the State"
12:30pm – 1:30pm	Lunch
2:00pm – 3:30pm	Tom Palmer, "Freedom in a Historical Perspective"
3:30pm – 3:45pm	Refreshment Break
3:45pm – 5:00pm	Daniel Griswold, "Understanding Public Policy — A Primer"
6:30pm – 7:00pm	Reception
7:00pm – 9:00pm	Dinner with speaker, Robert McDonald, "Liberty and the American Experience, Part I"

Tuesday, July 26
8:00am – 9:00am	Continental Breakfast
9:00am – 10:30am	Lynne Kiesling, "Spontaneous Orders"
10:30am – 10:45am	Refreshment Break
10:45am – 12:15pm	Robert McDonald, "Liberty and the American Experience, Part II"
12:30pm – 2:00pm	Depart for Washington D.C. (lunch on the bus)
2:00pm – 4:30pm	Afternoon Activities in DC include a choice of guided tours of the U.S. Capitol or Library of Congress, or self-guided visits to the Supreme Court, National Mall and/or Smithsonian museums. We have also reserved an entry time at the National Archives.
5:00pm – 6:00pm	Robert A. Levy, "How the Supreme Court Subverted the Constitution" (at the Cato Institute)
6:00pm – 6:30pm	Transfer to Hart Senate Office Building
6:30pm – 7:00pm	Reception
7:00pm – 9:00pm	Dinner with speaker, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), with a special introduction by Edward H. Crane

Wednesday, July 27
8:00am – 9:00am	Continental Breakfast
9:00am – 10:30am	Robert A. Levy, "Limits on Government Power: Obamacare and the Constitution"
10:30am – 10:45am	Refreshment Break
10:45am – 12:15pm	Donald Boudreaux, "Economics of Progress"
12:30pm – 1:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm – 6:00pm	Afternoon Activities TBD
6:30pm – 7:00pm	Reception
7:00pm – 9:00pm	Dinner with speaker, Robert McDonald, "Frederick Douglass and the Movement for Liberation"

Thursday, July 28
8:00am – 9:00am	Continental Breakfast
9:00am – 10:30am	Lynne Kiesling, "Economics of Intervention"
10:30am – 10:45am	Refreshment Break
10:45am – 12:15pm	Christopher Preble, "To Provide for the Common Defense: Foreign Policy and the American Constitution"
12:30pm – 1:30pm	Lunch
2:00pm – 3:30pm	Radley Balko, "The Increasing Criminalization of Everything"
3:30pm – 3:45pm	Refreshment Break
3:45pm – 5:00pm	Tom Palmer, "Liberty and Responsibility: Philosophy of Rights and Contemporary Applications"
6:30pm – 7:00pm	Reception
7:00pm – 9:00pm	Dinner with speaker, David Boaz, "Reclaiming Freedom"

Friday, July 29
7:45am – 8:30am	Continental Breakfast
8:30am – 9:15am	Tom Palmer, "Our Lives, Our Fortunes, and Sacred Honor"

Additional information will be posted in the near future, so please check back, or provide your email address to receive automatic updates on the 2011 program.

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