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Does Capitalism Help or Harm Women? A Debate
Has the spread of capitalism been a net positive or a net negative for women around the world? Is capitalism an inherently exploitative, oppressive, and patriarchal economic system entwined with the subjugation of women? Or has it helped to empower women, enhancing their material well-being and fostering gender parity? Advocates of women’s welfare disagree on these important questions. As a result, they seek to advance very different economic policies despite a shared goal of promoting female empowerment.
We invite you to a debate about the rise of global capitalism and its effect on women. Two scholars — a free marketer and an anti-capitalist — will go head-to-head to answer an important question: Does capitalism help or harm women?
If you can't make it to the event, you can watch it live online and join the conversation on Twitter using #WomenDebateMarkets. Follow @CatoEvents on Twitter to get future event updates, live streams, and videos from the Cato Institute.
18th Annual Constitution Day
The Supreme Court: Past and Prologue
A Look at the October 2018 and 2019 Terms
Presented through the generosity of The George M. Yeager Family Foundation
Cato's annual Constitution Day symposium marks the day in 1787 that the Constitutional Convention finished drafting the U.S. Constitution. We celebrate that event each year with the release of the new issue of the Cato Supreme Court Review and with a day-long symposium featuring noted scholars discussing the recently concluded Supreme Court term and the important cases coming up.
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
10:30AM—7:00PM EDT
Cato Institute
F. A. Hayek Auditorium
1000 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC
CLE credit will be offered and the form will be distributed at the conference.
About the Symposium | Registration
Symposium Program
| 10:30-10:45AM | Welcoming Remarks Ilya Shapiro, Director, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute Introduction Trevor Burrus, Research Fellow in Constitutional Studies and Editor in Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review |
| 10:45AM-12:00PM | Panel I: Old Amendments, New Developments Brianne J. Gorod, Chief Counsel, Constitutional Accountability Center Anthony J. Colangelo, Professor of Law, Southern Methodist Univ. Dedman School of Law Eric Baxter, VP & Senior Counsel, Becket Fund for Religious Liberty Moderated by Trevor Burrus, Editor in Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review |
| 12:00-1:00PM | Lunch |
| 1:00-2:15PM | Panel II: Constitutional Structure Paul J. Larkin Jr., The John, Barbara and Victoria Rumpel Senior Legal Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation Roger Pilon, B. Kenneth Simon Chair, Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute Braden H. Boucek, Vice President of Legal Affairs, Beacon Center of Tennessee Moderated by William Yeatman, Research Fellow, Cato Institute |
| 2:15-3:30PM | Panel III: Property Rights, Antitrust, and the Census Joshua D. Wright, Univ. Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason Univ. Ilya Somin, Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason Univ. Andrew M. Grossman, Partner, BakerHostetler, and Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute Moderated by Walter Olson, Senior Fellow, Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute |
| 3:30-3:45PM | Break |
| 3:45-5:00PM | Panel IV: Looking Ahead: October Term 2019 Elizabeth Slattery, Legal Fellow, Heritage Foundation Tom Goldstein, Partner, Goldstein & Russell Jan Crawford, Chief Legal Correspondent, CBS News Moderated by Trevor Burrus, Editor in Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review |
| 5:00-6:00PM | Annual B. Kenneth Simon Lecture: Judicial Independence and the Roberts Court Hon. Thomas Hardiman, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Moderated by Ilya Shapiro, Director, Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute |
| 6:00-7:00PM | Reception |
The Human Costs of War: Assessing Civilian Casualties since 9/11
On September 11, 2001, al Qaeda terrorists killed nearly 3,000 innocent men, women, and children in four coordinated attacks, the deadliest such incident in history and the bloodiest day on American soil in over a century. Since that time, the Pentagon says more than 7,000 Americans have been killed in the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Greater Middle East, as well as in other military operations associated with the War on Terror.
Many Americans still recall the trauma of 9/11 and are aware of the scale of death and destruction wrought that day. Some have a sense of the numbers of U.S. troops killed in wars since. Very few, however, are aware of the others who have died in these wars. For example, the Costs of War Project counts at least 244,000 civilian deaths in just three countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Much higher estimates may be derived from episodic reporting of incidents involving noncombatants killed as a result of U.S. military action worldwide.
At this special policy forum, a distinguished panel of experts will explore the nature of these casualties, why the U.S. military’s efforts to limit harm to innocent men, women, and children sometimes fail, how and if recent congressional oversight has helped to shed light on the issue, and whether the U.S. media’s inconsistent coverage of noncombatant deaths is a symptom or a cause of the public’s relative ignorance of the true costs of America’s ongoing wars.
If you can't make it to the event, you can watch it live online and join the conversation on Twitter using #CatoFP. Follow @CatoEvents on Twitter to get future event updates, live streams, and videos from the Cato Institute.