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Liberty Fund states that it has held over 3000 conferences.<ref> Liberty Fund's Conference Program[http://www.libertyfund.org/conferences.html]</ref> |
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Liberty Fund states that it has held over 3000 conferences.<ref> Liberty Fund's Conference Program[http://www.libertyfund.org/conferences.html]</ref> In his book [[The Assault on Reason]] [[Al Gore]] says that between 2002 and 2004 of the attendees at their training seminars for judges 97% were Republican appointed judges and suggests that such conferences and seminars are one of the reasons that judges who regularly attend such conferences "are generally responsible for writing the most radical pro-corporate, antienvironmental, and activist decisions" and that groups such as the Liberty Fund are "not providing unbiased judicial education. They are giving multithousand-dollar vacations to federal judges to promote their radical right-wing agenda at the expense of the public interest."<ref>{{cite book|last=Gore|first=Al|title=The Assault on Reason|year=2007|publisher=Penguin Press|isbn=978-1594201226|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CrSKtmZxatAC&pg=PA234&dq=%22Liberty+Fund%22+%22right+wing%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cIgeT_OkI9Te8QPLtO2yDg&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q=%22Liberty%20Fund%22%20%20&f=false|page=234}}</ref> |
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== Co-Sponsored Program == |
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Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established and headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. It states that it is dedicated to the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. Ideas about free markets, limited government, and individual liberty are the focal points for the discussions and conversations which Liberty Fund fosters in its conferences, publication efforts, and website activities.
History
Liberty Fund was founded in 1960 by the Indiana businessman and lawyer Pierre F. Goodrich (1894-1973) and is based in Indianapolis.
Conference Program
Liberty Fund states that it has held over 3000 conferences.[2]
Co-Sponsored Program
Liberty Fund and its co-sponsoring institutions conduct educational programs.[3] The co-sponsoring institutions include bodies such as the Acton Institute, the Bill of Rights Institute, the Institute for Humane Studies, the Instituto Liberal, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, the John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs, the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, the McConnell Center, and the Universidad Francisco Marroquin.
Publishing
Through its publishing program over the past three decades, Liberty Fund has made available almost 400 titles[4] in the fields of history, politics, philosophy, law, education, and economics. These include the Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith (7 vols.), the Sraffa edition of the Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo (11 vols.), Liberty Fund’s Natural Law and Enlightenment Series (31 of a projected 44 vols.), and the Historical-Critical Edition of Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (4 vols.).
See also
- Federalist Society
- Cato Institute
- Constitution Society
- Independent Institute
- Independence Institute
- Library of Economics and Liberty