The Great Wedding Cake Debate: Anti-Discrimination Law & the First Amendment

Speaker:

• Bob Levy - Chairman of the Board of Directors, Cato Institute

Bob Levy is chairman of the board of directors at the Cato Institute. He also serves as a director of the Institute for Justice and the Foundation for Government Accountability. He joined Cato in 1997 as senior fellow in constitutional studies after 25 years in business during which time he founded CDA Investment Technologies, a major provider of investment information and software. At age 50, Mr. Levy attended George Mason Law School, where he was chief articles editor of the law review and class valedictorian. He served as a law clerk to Judge Royce Lamberth of the D.C. District Court and Judge Douglas Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Mr. Levy has served as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, National Review, and many other publications. He has discussed public policy on national radio and TV programs, including ABC’s Nightline, Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor, PBS’s Newshour, and NBC’s Today Show. His latest book, co-authored with William Mellor, is The Dirty Dozen: How 12 Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom. He served as co-counsel in District of Columbia v. Heller, the successful Supreme Court challenge to Washington, D.C.’s gun ban. 

Lunch provided.

COST: $10 for Federalist Society members; $15 for non-members

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