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Objectivism: Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System
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Mar 16 2016
Wednesday 12:00 a.m.    

Objectivism: Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System

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Tara A. Smith
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Whittier Student Chapter
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Patent Trolls: Should We Live with Them or Without Them?
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Mar 15 2016
Tuesday 5:30 p.m.    

Patent Trolls: Should We Live with Them or Without Them?

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Donald Bollella • Ryan T. Holte
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Intellectual Property
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Whittier Student Chapter
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A Second Amendment Debate: What Were the Founding Fathers Thinking?
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A Second Amendment Debate: What Were the Founding Fathers Thinking?

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Mary Gale
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Tara A. Smith

Tara A. Smith

Professor, The University of Texas at Austin

Biography
Tara Smith is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where she has taught since 1989. A specialist in moral, legal, and political philosophy, her several books include Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System (2015), The First Amendment – Essays on the Imperative of Intellectual Freedom (2024), and Egoism Without Permission – The Moral Psychology of Ayn Rand’s Ethics (2024). Professor Smith’s interests in legal philosophy center around proper methodology in judicial review, First Amendment questions of intellectual freedom, and Fourth Amendment questions of privacy.
 

 

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Donald Bollella

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Ryan T. Holte

Ryan T. Holte

U.S. Court of Federal Claims and Jurist-In-Residence Professor of Law, The University of Akron School of Law

Biography

Judge Ryan T. Holte was sworn in as a judge on the United States Court of Federal Claims in July 2019.  Prior to confirmation he served as the David L. Brennan Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law and Technology at The University of Akron School of Law (2017-2019) and an assistant professor of law at Southern Illinois University School of Law (2013-2017).  Judge Holte has written and presented widely on patent law subjects and empirical legal studies of Federal Circuit and district court patent law cases.  His most recent articles were published in the Iowa Law Review (2019), George Mason Law Review (2018), and Washington Law Review (2017).

In practice, Judge Holte served for six years as general counsel and partner of an electrical engineering technology company and is co-inventor of multiple patents related to Systems and Methods for Countering Satellite-Navigated Munitions.  Prior to entering academia, Judge Holte practiced as a litigation attorney at the Federal Trade Commission and an associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group at Jones Day.  Prior to practice, he served as a law clerk to Judge Stanley F. Birch, Jr. on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and as a law clerk to Judge Loren A. Smith on the United States Court of Federal Claims.

Judge Holte received his JD from the University of California Davis School of Law and his BS, magna cum laude, in engineering from the California Maritime Academy where he was a First Class graduate of the Corps of Cadets Third Engineering Division and sailed as a U.S. Merchant Marine oiler.

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Mary Gale

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