Events: Walter Olson

April 12, 2013

After the Arguments: What’s Next for Marriage Equality?

After the Arguments: What's Next for Marriage Equality?

Featuring Mary Bonauto, Civil Rights Project Director, Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders; Kathryn Lehman, Partner, Holland & Knight; Walter Olson, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute; and Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies and Editor-In-Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review, Cato Institute; moderated by Laura Odato, Director of Government Affairs, Cato Institute.

March 27, 2013

Law, Politics, and Same-Sex Marriage

Law, Politics, and Same-Sex Marriage

Featuring Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute Center for Constitutional Studies; Ken Mehlman, Former Chair, Republican National Committee; and Evan Wolfson, Founder and Executive Director, Freedom to Marry; moderated by Walter Olson, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute Center for Constitutional Studies.

January 16, 2013

Failing Law Schools

Failing Law Schools

Featuring the author Brian Tamanaha, William Gardiner Hammond Professor of Law and Israel Treiman Faculty Fellow, Washington University Law School; with comments by Neal McCluskey, Associate Director, Center for Educational Freedom, Cato Institute; and Paul Campos, Professor of Law, University of Colorado at Boulder and Author, Don’t Go To Law School (Unless); moderated by Walter Olson, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute and Author, Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America.

November 1, 2012

Is Judicial Restraint the Proper Response to Judicial Activism?

Is Judicial Restraint the Proper Response to Judicial Activism?

Featuring J. Harvie Wilkinson III, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; and Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute; moderated by Walter Olson, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute Center for Constitutional Studies.

March 3, 2011

Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America

Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America

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.

September 16, 2010

9th Annual Constitution Day Conference

Cato Institute 9th Annual Constitution Day Conference - Religion, Offensive Videos, and Campaign Finance: A Big Year for the First Amendment

Featuring Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs and Director, Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute; Ilya Shapiro, Editor-in-Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review; James Bopp Jr., General Counsel, James Madison Center for Free Speech; Steve Simpson, Senior Attorney, Institute for Justice; and others.