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Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political and Legal Philosophy
Sponsored by Liberty Fund, Inc., this conference will be held on May 11-14, 2011. Its purpose is to stimulate its participants to investigate the two separate and antithetical American political traditions: the original Lockean tradition of the founding and the collectivist reaction to it which arose principally in the newly established universities in the decades following the Civil War. The tensions between these two apparently disparate traditions in the country's political and legal philosophy have set the stage for most of the principal disputes in its political, constitutional, and economic history over the past century and a quarter. Participating in this conference will be James W. Ceaser, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia; Eldon J. Eisenach, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Tulsa; James W. Ely, Professor Emeritus of Law and History, Milton Underwood Chair in Law, Vanderbilt Law School; Eric Mack, Professor of Philosophy, Faculty Member Murphy Institute of Political Economy, Tulane University; Tiffany J. Miller, Associate Professor of Politics, University of Dallas; Adam Mossoff, Associate Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law; Ronald J. Pestritto Jr., Charles and Lucia Shipley Chair in American Constitution and Associate Professor of Politics, Hillsdale College; Paul A. Rahe, Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in Western Heritage, and Professor of History, Hillsdale College; C. Bradley Thompson, BB&T Research Professor and Professor of Political Science, and Executive Director of the Clemson Institute for the Study Capitalism, Clemson University; Thomas G. West, Professor of Politics, University of Dallas; Craig B. Yirush, Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles; Michael P. Zuckert, Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame.
The papers from this conference will be published in Social Philosophy & Policy, Vol. 29, No. 2.
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