In September 2007, the National Legal Center for the Public Interest (NLC) merged into the American Enterprise Institute to become the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest (AEILC). AEI resident fellow Ted Frank is the director of the new center.
The NLC was founded in 1975 to foster knowledge about law and the administration of justice, especially with respect to individual rights, free enterprise, property ownership, limited government, and a fair and efficient judiciary. It has pursued its educational and intellectual missions through a publishing program, conferences, and the annual Gauer Distinguished Lecture in Law and Public Policy, all of which the AEILC will continue.
AEI's own program on legal and constitutional studies will now appear under the aegis of the AEILC, including its conferences, publications like Constitutional Outlook (formerly Federalist Outlook) and Liability Outlook, and research monographs and books like Federal Preemption: States' Powers, National Interests, a recent AEI Press volume edited by Richard A. Epstein and Michael S. Greve.
For more information, contact:
Sara Wexler
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-862-5820
E-mail: sara.wexler@aei.org
Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Christopher Cox will deliver the 2007 Gauer Distinguished Lecture in Law and Public Policy on December 5. His subject is "The Rise of Sovereign Business." The Gauer Distinguished Lecture, sponsored by the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest is a major scholarly discourse by a national or world leader on an important constitutional, legal, or public policy issue of the day.
In this issue of Liability Outlook,