Adam Thierer

Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University

Adam Thierer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He specializes in innovation, entrepreneurialism, Internet, and free-speech issues, with a particular focus on the public policy concerns surrounding emerging technologies.

Thierer has authored or edited eight books on topics ranging from media regulation and child safety issues to the role of federalism in high-technology markets. His latest book is Permissionless Innovation: The Continuing Case for Comprehensive Technological Freedom.

Previously, Thierer was president of the Progress & Freedom Foundation, director of Telecommunications Studies at the Cato Institute, and a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He received his MA in international business management and trade theory at the University of Maryland and his BA in Journalism and Political Philosophy from Indiana University

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Nov 21 2019

Thursday 6:00 p.m. EST

Tech Policy Reception

Regulatory Transparency Project

Kennedy Caucus Room, Russell Senate Office Building, Room SR-325
2 Constitution Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002

Speakers:

Ashkhen Kazaryan • Adam Thierer • Caleb Watney

Topics:

Regulatory Transparency Project • Article I Initiative

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Sep 21 2018

Friday 8:00 a.m. PST

Reboot 2018 Conference

Regulatory Transparency Project Co-Sponsored Event

The Commonwealth Club
110 The Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA 94105

Speakers:

Kathryn Biber Chen • Jesse Blumenthal • Jamie Boone • Jean Bordewich • Pablo E. Carrillo • Neil Chilson • Renée DiResta • Mike Godwin • Eric Goldman • Zach Graves • Anne Hobson • Garrett Johnson • Jerry A. Johnson • Lorelei Kelly • Michael Kratsios • Geoffrey A. Manne • Mike Maples • Paul Martino • Katie McAuliffe • Corynne McSherry • Tiffany Moore • Travis Moore • Jennifer Pahlka • Liya Palagashvili • Chris Riley • Dan Rothschild • Ellen Satterwhite • Daniel Schuman • Hal Singer • Trae Stephens • Matt Stoller • Berin Szoka • Adam Thierer • Caleb Watney

Topics:

Administrative Law & Regulation • Corporations, Securities & Antitrust • Regulatory Transparency Project • Security & Privacy • Telecommunications & Electronic Media

The GDPR and the Future of Internet Privacy

Jul 9 2018

Monday 3:00 p.m. EST

The GDPR and the Future of Internet Privacy

Telecommunications & Electronic Media Practice Group and Regulatory Transparency Project Teleforum

Teleforum

Speakers:

Sunny Seon Kang • Roslyn Layton • Adam Thierer

Topics:

Security & Privacy • Telecommunications & Electronic Media • Regulatory Transparency Project

Sponsors:

Fourth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference

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May 17 2016

Tuesday 9:00 a.m. EST

Fourth Annual Executive Branch Review Conference

The Mayflower Hotel
1127 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, DC 20036

Speakers:

Paul S. Atkins • Rachel L. Brand • Ronald A. Cass • Susan E. Dudley • John F. Duffy • Brian T. Fitzpatrick • Michael S. Greve • Heidi Heitkamp • Gail L. Heriot • Adam Mossoff • Clark Neily • Maureen K. Ohlhausen • Randall R. Rader • Jeffrey A. Rosen • Laurence H. Silberman • Bradley L. Smith • Adam Thierer • J. Troy Wall • Adam White

Topics:

Federalism & Separation of Powers • Administrative Law & Regulation • Intellectual Property • Labor & Employment Law

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Nov 20 2008

Thursday 8:00 a.m. EST

2008 National Lawyers Convention

The People and the Judiciary

The Mayflower Hotel
1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036

Speakers:

Jonathan H. Adler • Paul S. Atkins • Stephen Bainbridge • John S. Baker • Carlos T. Bea • Lillian R. BeVier • François-Henri Briard • Stephen B. Burbank • Ronald A. Cass • Meryl J. Chertoff • Michael Chertoff • Paul D. Clement • Charles J. Cooper • Walter E. Dellinger • John C. Dernbach • Frank H. Easterbrook • John C. Eastman • Bert Ely • Richard A. Epstein • William N. Eskridge • Miguel A. Estrada • Thomas F. Farr • Holly B. Fechner • Alice Fisher • Merrick B. Garland • Richard W. Garnett • Gregory G. Garre • Charles Gardner Geyh • Douglas H. Ginsburg • T Gunn • T. Jeremy Gunn • Steven F. Hayward • Arthur D. Hellman • Kristin E. Hickman • Dennis G. Jacobs • Gregory G. Katsas • Neal K. Katyal • Brett M. Kavanaugh • William K. Kelley • F. Scott Kieff • William J. Kilberg • Edmund Kitch • Andrew Koppelman • James Lindgren • Nelson Lund • Jonathan R. Macey • Kenneth L. Marcus • William P. Marshall • Don Martens • Kevin J. Martin • Michael W. McConnell • John O. McGinnis • Thomas W. Merrill • Randy Moss • Clark Neily • Eileen J. O'Connor • Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain • James A. Paretti • Robert S. Peck • Carter G. Phillips • Roger Pilon • Scott M. Polakoff • Alex J. Pollock • Lucas A. Powe • William H. Pryor • Jeremy A. Rabkin • Randall R. Rader • Arti K. Rai • A. Raymond Randolph • Andrew J. Redleaf • Daniel E. Reidy • David Reinhard • David B. Rivkin • Jeffrey Rosen • Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz • Bill Samuel • William L. Saunders • Antonin Scalia • Robert F. Schiff • Harold F. See • David B. Sentelle • Jerry E. Smith • Kenneth W. Starr • David R. Stras • Jeffrey S. Sutton • Diane S. Sykes • John Taylor • George J. Terwilliger • Adam Thierer • Larry D. Thompson • Robert Trout • Timothy M. Tymkovich • Eugene Volokh • Peter J. Wallison • H Wells • H. Thomas Wells • J. Harvie Wilkinson • Adam Winkler • John C. Yoo • Todd Zywicki

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