Tom G. Palmer

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Tom G. Palmer is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, and director of Cato University, the Institute's educational arm. Palmer is also the vice president for international programs at the Atlas Global Initiative for Free Trade, Peace, and Prosperity, which operates programs in 13 languages. Before joining Cato he was an H. B. Earhart Fellow at Hertford College, Oxford University, and a vice president of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. He frequently lectures in North America, Europe, Eurasia, Africa, Latin America, China, and the Middle East on political science, public choice, civil society, and the moral, legal, and historical foundations of individual rights. He has published reviews and articles on politics and morality in scholarly journals such as the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Ethics, Critical Review, and Constitutional Political Economy, as well as in publications such as Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Spectator of London. He received his B.A. in liberal arts from St. Johns College in Annapolis, Maryland, his M.A. in philosophy from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and his Ph.D. in politics from Oxford University. He is the author of Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice, published in 2009.

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Books and Book Chapters

Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice, (2009).

"Limited Government and the Rule of Law," Chapter 2 of the Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 7th edition.

"No Exit: Framing the Problem of Justice" in Ordered Anarchy: Jasay and His Surroundings, ed. by Hartmut Kliemt and Hardy Bouillon (London: Ashgate, 2008).

"Are Patents and Copyrights Morally Justified?" in Copy Fights: The Future of Intellectual Property in the Information Age, ed by Adam Thierer and Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. (Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2002).

"Madison and Multiculturalism: Group Representation, Group Rights, and Constitutionalism," in James Madison and the Future of Limited Government, ed by John Samples (Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2002)

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Cato Studies

"Lessons of Election 2000," by John Samples, Tom G. Palmer and Patrick Basham, Briefing Paper no. 59, January 2, 2001.

Articles and Newsletters

"Democracy and the Contest for Liberty," Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 102, No. 1 (2008).

Opinion and Commentary

"Ali Hussein Sibat Must Not Be Executed," by Raja M. Kamal and Tom G. Palmer, Daily Star (Lebanon), December 30, 2009

"Arab Education Displays its Discontents," by Raja M. Kamal and Tom G. Palmer, Lebanon Daily Star, April 27, 2009

"Getting Kareem Freed," National Review, March 29, 2007

"Open Societies, Global Markets, and the Bourgeois Virtues," Cato.org, March 29, 2007

"The 'Crime' of Blogging In Egypt," by Raja M. Kamal and Tom G. Palmer, Cato.org, February 21, 2007

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Cato @ Liberty Blog Posts

"Realizing Freedom," October 9, 2009

"Victim in Egyptian Jail… Letters Will Help," August 17, 2009

"G. A. Cohen," August 7, 2009

"Spinning...When a President who Seeks Dictatorial Powers in an Illegal Move Is Removed by the Congress and by the Supreme Court, Is it a "Military Coup"?," June 29, 2009

"How Protectionism Crashed the World Economy...and How to Stop It This Time Around," April 30, 2009

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Legal Briefs

Parker v. District of Columbia, March 1, 2004 (PDF, 48 KB)

Events

"Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice," December 1, 2009 [Book Forum]

"Cato University," July 26-31, 2009 [Conference]

"What Should Be a Culture of Enterprise in an Age of Globalization?," March 29, 2007 [Conference]

"Freedom, Commerce and Peace: A Regional Agenda," October 25, 2006 [Conference]

"Building Foundations for Freedom, Commerce, and Peace in the Middle East," May 4, 2006 [Capitol Hill Briefing]

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Speeches and Testimony

"Freedom Properly Understood." An address presented before the Liberal Thinkers' Conference "The Future of Freedom," Hamburg, Saturday, 17 November 2007.

"The Role of Institutions and Law in Economic Development." Prepared for "A Liberal Agenda for the New Century: A Global Perspective," a Conference cosponsored by the Cato Institute, the Institute of Economic Analysis and the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, April 8-9, 2004, Moscow, Russian Federation.

Presentations

Byrne Project Report: Freedom and Jihad [PDF | Powerpoint]

Constitutional Democracy and the New Iraq (English) [PDF | Powerpoint]

Constitutional Democracy and the New Iraq (Arabic) [PDF | Powerpoint]