Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies: Impact Since Our Founding
Cato’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies and its scholars take their inspiration from the struggle of America’s founding and Civil War generations to secure liberty through constitutionally limited government. The Center’s scholars address a wide range of constitutional and legal issues, especially by encouraging the judiciary to neither make nor ignore the law but rather to interpret and apply it through the natural rights tradition inherited from the Founders.
Scholars affiliated with the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, both resident and non-resident, conduct rigorous legal research on a wide range of subjects: constitutional theory and history, the Supreme Court, property rights, environmental law, and others. The Center publishes the annual Cato Supreme Court Review, released at its annual Constitution Day Conference, featuring leading legal scholars analyzing the most important decisions of the Court’s recent term. Center scholars also write and commission books, monographs, articles, and op-eds; conduct forums on legal issues of the day; lecture and debate across the country; and file amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs with the Supreme Court, all aimed at encouraging a climate of ideas conducive to liberty through constitutionally limited government.
Penn Jillette spoke at this year's Benefactor Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Penn Jillette is the H.L. Mencken research fellow, is the louder, bigger half of the magic/comedy team Penn & Teller. He and Teller co-host a new series on Showtime that looks to debunk junk science, scares and scams with reason and logic. Jillette writes the “Final Word” column for Regulation magazine.
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"Cato...take[s] these principles that really don't mean much to most people ('Big government. Yeah, I don't like the government.') and translates it in a way that means something to people everyday."
— Steven Forbes, CEO of Forbes
Forty years ago, the Cato Institute opened its doors. See a timeline of our milestones, read about the future of liberty, and more: https://www.cato.org/cato40.
Then, join the conversation with #Cato40.
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http://www.cato.org/multimedia/events/high-frequency-trading-information-tool-efficient-markets-or-destabilizing-force
Featuring Holly Bell, Associate Professor (Business), University of Alaska Anchorage; and Hester Peirce, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center; moderated by Louise C. Bennetts, Associate Director, Financial Regulation Studies, Cato Institute.
In recent years, concerns have been raised about the potential market risks associated with high frequency trading and algorithmic trading in general. Proponents of high frequency trading suggest the practice is a contemporary tool that facilitates informational market efficiency and is capable of being regulated by the market and market participants. Opponents have argued that these practices create risk and require aggressive regulation. This discussion takes place against a backdrop of heightened regulatory scrutiny given the recent push by the Securities and Exchange Commission to monitor high-frequency trading and related practices, such as the creation of dark pools, more closely.
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View the full event here: http://www.cato.org/events/what-are-rights-dying
Five U.S. states either permit aid in dying or are poised to do so shortly. Several others are considering legislation and/or court judgments that may find in favor of it in various ways. Yet the ethical questions surrounding aid in dying run deep, as even its advocates must admit: Is the choice to hasten a terminally ill patient’s death ever an ethical one? If so, what legal safeguards may be necessary? How do proponents answer charges that aid in dying will result in elder abuse, the degradation of the value of life, and the risk of a slippery slope toward premeditated killing?
As with those of many other political persuasions, libertarians may be divided on this issue. Yet it remains important to us, as to all others. Serious questions about individual autonomy and self-ownership are involved here no matter which side is in the right.
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Letters in Black and White is an epistolary correspondence between a white woman and black man who are both concerned with the condition of contemporary race relations. The book is a defense of classical liberalism as a guiding ideology for understanding and improving race in America. The authors object to the use of race as a rigid identity, especially in schools, universities, and the workplace. As Twyman starts his correspondence with Richmond: “There are 40,000,000 black individuals with 40,000,000 different stories. Not everyone can correspond with everyone else, but we can get to know and see each other as individuals.” And thus starts an extraordinary correspondence across the color line that sees these two strangers become friends as they wrestle with their different ideas; a diversity, equity, and inclusion bureaucracy; and a vocal illiberal minority on how to imagine a new American identity.
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In his new book Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom, Ilya Somin explains how broadening opportunities for foot voting can greatly enhance political liberty for millions around the world, often more effectively than voting at the ballot box.
People can “vote with their feet” by participating in international migration, choosing where to live within a federal system, and making decisions in the private sector.
These three types of foot voting are rarely considered together, but Somin explains how they have important common virtues. He also pushes back against the most common objections to expanded migration rights, including the claim that the self‐determination of natives gives them the power to exclude migrants.
By making a systematic case for a more open world, Free to Move challenges conventional wisdom on both the left and right.
Professors Peter Margulies and Bryan Caplan will provide additional insights, comments, and criticisms. Please join us for a timely and lively discussion, moderated by Cato's David J. Bier.
Tweet your questions using #CatoImmigration and join the discussion online.
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"I'm absolutely sure that the future of my country, and of any country facing a dictatorship, is freedom." — Ambassador Armando Valladares, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Commission on Human Rights, on the 2018 winners of the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, Las Damas de Blanco (the Ladies in White), and the future of Cuba.
Learn more about the Ladies in White, then join the conversation on Twitter with #FriedmanPrize: https://www.cato.org/friedman-prize/las-damas-de-blanco
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