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. He was very active in the late 1980s and the early 1990s in the spread of classical liberal ideas in the Soviet bloc states and their successors and continues to be active throughout the region through his work with www.cato.ru, the Cato Institute's Russian-language program, and with the Institute's European programs. 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.

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Books and Book Chapters

"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)

"Classical Liberalism and Civil Society: Definitions, History, and Relations," in Civil Society and Government, ed. by Nancy Rosenblum and Robert Post (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 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

"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

"Freedom for an Egyptian Blogger and Freethinker," by Tom G. Palmer and Raja M. Kamal, Daily Star, February 20, 2007

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Cato @ Liberty Blog Posts

"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

"Food Crisis," May 25, 2008

"Milton Friedman Prize Selection Committee Member Arrested," April 28, 2008

"Atilla Yayla Found Guilty," January 29, 2008

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Legal Briefs

Shelly Parker, Dick Anthony Heller, Tom G. Palmer, Gillian St. Lawrence, Tracey Ambeau and George Lyon v. District of Columbia and Anthony Williams, March 1, 2004 (PDF, 48 KB)

Events

"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]

"Cato Institute Perspectives 2006," April 27, 2006 [City Seminar]

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]