June 4, 2013

The Heller Ruling, Five Years On

Featuring Alan Gura, Gura & Possessky, Lead Counsel, District of Columbia v. Heller; Robert Levy, Chairman, Cato Institute, Co-counsel, District of Columbia v. Heller; Clark Neily, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice, Co-counsel, District of Columbia v. Heller; and Emily Miller, Senior Editor, Washington Times, Author, Emily Gets Her Gun (forthcoming, Regnery); moderated by Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute.

12:00pm Hayek Auditorium

June 4, 2013

The Great Biotechnology Debate: Food and Farming in the Balance

Featuring Jon Entine, Founding Director, Genetic Literacy Project; and Kevin M. Folta, Interim Chair, Horticultural Sciences Department, University of Florida vs. Jeffrey Smith, Author, Producer, Genetic Roulette; and via Skype, Gilles-Eric Seralini, President, Committee for Research and Independent Information on Genetic Engineering; moderated by Kyle Gibson, Executive Producer, Women in the World Summit.

2:00pm Hayek Auditorium

June 5, 2013

Doing Bad by Doing Good: Why Humanitarian Action Fails

Featuring the author Christopher J. Coyne, F. A. Harper Professor of Economics, George Mason University; with comments by M. Peter McPherson, Former Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, 1981–1987; and Elizabeth Ferris, Co-Director, Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement; moderated by Malou Innocent, Foreign Policy Analyst, Cato Institute.

12:00pm Hayek Auditorium

June 5, 2013

The Problem with Europe’s Austerity Debate

Featuring Simeon Djankov, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Bulgaria, Creator and former lead author of Doing Business (World Bank); and Anders Aslund, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics; moderated by Ian Vasquez, Director, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute.

4:00pm Hayek Auditorium

June 6, 2013 - June 7, 2013

Third Annual Cato Papers on Public Policy Conference

Featuring: Jeffrey Miron, Harvard University and Cato Institute; Paul Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; Ross Levine, University of California, Berkeley; Yona Rubinstein, London School of Economics; James Hamilton, University of California, San Diego; Giovanni Peri, University of California, Davis; and Chad Sparber, Colgate University.

1:15pm Hayek Auditorium

June 14, 2013

Can a Treaty Increase the Power of Congress?

Featuring Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law Center, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; with comments by Hon. Alex Kozinski, Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; moderated by Roger Pilon Director, Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute.

12:00pm Hayek Auditorium

September 26, 2013 to September 29, 2013

Cato Club 200 Retreat

By invitation only.

Montage Laguna Beach, Laguna Beach, CA

September 18, 2014 to September 21, 2014

Cato Club 200 Retreat

By invitation only.

Salamander Resort & Spa, Middleburg, VA