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What Trump Got Right About International Trade
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What Trump Got Right About International Trade

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Paul M. Hebert Law Center
1 East Campus Drive
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
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Grover Joseph Rees
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The Second Amendment after Bruen
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Paul M. Hebert Law Center
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Baton Rouge, LA 70803
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Clark Neily
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303 Creative v Elenis: The No-Compelled Speech Doctrine:  A SCOTUS Preview
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303 Creative v Elenis: The No-Compelled Speech Doctrine: A SCOTUS Preview

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LSU Law Center
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baton rouge, LA 70803
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Richard F. Duncan
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Grover Joseph Rees

Grover Joseph Rees

Former General Counsel of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization, Former United States Ambassador to East Timor

Biography

Grover Joseph Rees, a native and resident of Louisiana, served as the first United States Ambassador to East Timor from 2002 to 2006.

From October 2006 until January 2009 Ambassador Rees served as Special Representative for Social Issues in the U.S. Department of State.  He was responsible for promoting human dignity, including issues affecting vulnerable persons and the family, within the United Nations system.  He served as Acting U.S. Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Counsel during the fall 2007 session of the UN General Assembly and also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Organizations.

From 1995 until 2002 Rees was a senior staff member on the Foreign Affairs Committee in the United States House of Representatives, where he was responsible for human rights and refugee protection and played a major role in the drafting and enactment of important human rights legislation including the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, the International Religious Freedom Act, and the Torture Victims Relief Act.

Ambassador Rees also formerly served as General Counsel of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (1991-93), as Chief Justice of the High Court of American Samoa (1986-1991), and as Special Counsel to the Attorney General of the United States (1985-86).

Prior to his work in Washington, Rees served for seven years as a law professor at the University of Texas.  He has written and spoken widely on international law, human rights, refugees, and related issues.

Rees obtained his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his law degree from Louisiana State University Law School, where he served as Editor in Chief of the Louisiana Law Review and was selected for the academic honor society Order of the Coif.

Rees was born in New Orleans, the oldest of 12 children.  He is married to Lan Dai Nguyen Rees and has one son.  He retired from government service in January 2009 and now lives and works in Lafayette, Louisiana.

In addition to English, Ambassador Rees speaks French, Spanish, Portuguese, Samoan, and Tetum.

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Clark Neily

Clark Neily

Senior Vice President for Legal Studies, Cato Institute

Biography

Clark Neily is senior vice president for legal studies at the Cato Institute. His areas of interest include constitutional law, overcriminalization, civil forfeiture, police accountability, and gun rights. Neily is the author of Terms of Engagement: How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution’s Promise of Limited Government. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and National Review Online, as well as various law reviews, including the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, George Mason Law Review, Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, NYU Journal of Law and Liberty, and Texas Review of Law and Politics. Neily is a frequent guest speaker and lecturer for the Federalist Society, Institute for Humane Studies, and American Constitution Society.

Before joining Cato in 2017, Neily was a senior attorney and constitutional litigator at the Institute for Justice and director of the Institute’s Center for Judicial Engagement. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law, where he teaches constitutional litigation and public-interest law.

Neily served as co-counsel in District of Columbia v. Heller, the historic case in which the Supreme Court held for the first time that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own a gun for self-defense.

Neily began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge Royce Lamberth on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. After that he spent four years in the trial department of the Dallas-based firm Thompson & Knight. Neily received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Texas, where he was Chief Articles Editor of the Texas Law Review.

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Richard F. Duncan

Richard F. Duncan

Welpton & Wise Professor of Law, University of Nebraska College of Law

Biography

Professor Rick Duncan is the Welpton & Wise Professor of Law at the University Of Nebraska College Of Law.  He is a graduate of the Cornell Law School and served as an editor of the Cornell Law Review.  He teaches Constitutional Law with a special emphasis on the law of religious freedom, free speech, and federalism. Duncan has written numerous books, articles, and commentaries on a wide variety of legal topics. His recent publications include an article on Justice Scalia’s legacy, another on Kermit Gosnell and Roe v. Wade, a piece on the Electoral College and Federalism, a 2019 piece on Masterpiece Cakeshop and the First Amendment, and three recent articles on the “no compelled speech” doctrine as a First Amendment defense against authoritarianism and tyranny. His most recent article, on School Choice and the First Amendment, will be published in 2023 in Case Western Law Review. He is also the co-author of a book on Secured Transactions under Article 9 of the UCC. He served as Chairman of the Nebraska Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights during the Reagan Administration. He also loves to speak at Federalist Society meetings around the country on life, liberty, and the pursuit of federalism.

Duncan has five children, five grandchildren, and a wonderful wife who help him pursue happiness. He loves lifting weights (particularly going heavy on the incline bench press), attending Broadway musicals and plays, including Hamilton: An American Musical which he has seen 12 times (possibly a Nebraska record). He regularly reads both the Bible and the New York Times because it is important to keep up with what both sides have to say. He loves following major league baseball, especially the San Diego Padres. And his favorite legal aphorism is “first come rights then comes government to secure those rights.”

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