Diversity on college campus. Filmmaker authors and professor and Yale Universitys and michigan and chicago. Its about 90 minutes. Good evening. I guess its evening time. For those who dont know me, im neil good man, dean here at university of chicago. I want to thank you for joining us for this evenings events. Sometimes controversial and even ideas that challenge popular wisdom bring to bear evidence. Such ideas can at times fuel advance or break throughs on most vexing questions interest problems of our day. Once of the most indes penceble pillars in Higher Education is the cardinal principal and practice of Academic Freedom, pursuit of idea concepts, evidence and knowledge and the passing on of such in our education of students. While the principal of Academic Freedom is essential freedom of american Higher Education, the university of chicago has distinctionive and held approach to Academic Freedom which im sure you will be hearing more this evening. The school of social Service Ad
American universities have long been unique institutions that generate novel sometimes controversial and even classic ideas that will challenge and sometimes press popular wisdom bringing to bear deeper more rigorous analyses of evidence. Such ideas can at times youll advances or even breakthroughs of the most vexing questions and problems of our day. One of the most indispensable pillars in Higher Education, which makes such advanced wholly possible, is a cardinal principle and practice of Academic Freedom, the protection and the unfettered pursuit of ideas, concepts, evidence and knowledge, and the passing on of such in our education students. While the principle of Academic Freedom is a central freedom of american education, the university of chicago has a rather distinctive and deeply held approach to Academic Freedom, a which im sure youll be hearing more about this evening from some of our panelists. The school of social Service Administration has a a professional school of socia
And the universities of michigan and chicago. This is 90 minutes. Dean guterman ok, good evening everyone. I guess it is evening time now. The sun is setting so early. For those who dont know me, im neil guterman, dean here at the university of chicago. I want to thank you for joining us for this evenings events. American universities have long been unique institutions that generate novel, sometimes controversial and even iconoclastic ideas that challenge or sometimes press popular wisdom bring to bear more rigorous evidence. Such ideas can at times fuel advances or even breakthroughs on most vexing questions and problems of our day. One of the most indispensable pillars in Higher Education is the cardinal principal and practice of Academic Freedom, the protection of and unfettered pursuit of ideas, concepts, evidence and knowledge, and the passing on of such in our education of students. While the principal of Academic Freedom is an essential feature of american Higher Education, the
Welcome to the Cato Institute. I am the director for the center for constitutional studies and together with the Federalist Society, we are hosting todays forum. I want to thank the Federalist Society dean and julie who are with us today for their assistance in organizing the forum and also want to welcome those that are seeing us through cspan and our live stream audience as well. We are here to discuss an important subject, the Permission Society, the title of a new book by the Goldwater Institute tim sandefur, the Permission Society how the ruling class turns our freedoms into privileges and what we can do about it. This book documents the many ways especially since the progressive era the presumption of liberty and freedom is at the heart of the founding principles and documents and has been extinguished in favor of the perception of government with individuals having to obtain permission to government officials before being able to act. Property owners have long experienced this r
We cant ignore international competition. The question for the committee is, if the United States isnt going to adopt some form of intellectual property bonds or patent box, what are we going to do . Are we going to just ignore what is going on in the rest of the world . It hardly seems like a good idea. But the downside and people have noticed this of the patent box or intellectual property boxes that unless theyre carefully crafted, you can have a serious problem of encouraging too much property being included in the patent box, and you get a lot of revenue erosion that way, and its pretty undesirable. The issue really is what are we trying to achieve with the intellectual property box and patent something to the answer should be we want to encourage activities we would otherwise lose, and if we find ourselves in that situation, then we should try to figure out a way to craft one of these things. The rest of the world is doing and it we ignore them at our peril. I think i have a diff