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Equality, Liberty, and Risk 11-20-10

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Channel: The Federalist Society · 2010 · News & Politics

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The third Showcase Panel at the the Federalist Society's 2010 National Lawyers Convention was on "Equality, Liberty, and Risk" and was held on Friday, November 20, 2010. Panelists included Prof. Carl T. Bogus of Roger Williams University School of Law and the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University; Judge Frank H. Easterbrook of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Hon. C. Boyden Gray of Gray & Schmitz LLP; Prof. Christine Jolls of Yale Law School; and Judge Barrington D. Parker, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. Dean A. Reuter, Director of Practice Groups for The Federalist Society, delievered the introduction.

Americans historically have favored equality of opportunity and liberty with the knowledge that willingness to expose oneself to risk yields greater rewards for success and greater penalties for failure than are available under European style democratic socialism. In recent years, the role of the government in mitigating risk has expanded in a wide variety of areas: tort and contract law, health law, financial institutions, the auto industry and hurricane insurance, among others. How ought Americans to balance equality, liberty, and risk? Is America's historical preference for risk and liberty a function of the frontier aspects of our history? Is this expanded role of government the necessary consequence of democracy over time? Or is it possible or desirable to reverse that expansion and, if so, how can it be done?


SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20

Showcase Panel III: Equality, Liberty, and Risk
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

--Prof. Carl T. Bogus, Professor of Law, Roger Williams University School of Law; Visiting Professor, Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University
--Hon. Frank H. Easterbrook, United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit
--Hon. C. Boyden Gray, Gray & Schmitz LLP, and former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union
--Prof. Christine Jolls, Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor of Law and Organization, Yale Law School
--Moderator: Hon. Barrington D. Parker, Jr., United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
--Introduction: Mr. Dean A. Reuter, Director of Practice Groups, The Federalist Society

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