The Strange Death of Socialist Legal Theory

Montgomery Lawyers Chapter

Speaker:

  • Professor Michael DeBow - Cumberland School of Law, Samford University

Speaker:

  • Professor Michael DeBow - Cumberland School of Law, Samford University
Professor DeBow is a native of Mississippi. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees in economics from the University of Alabama and graduated from the Yale Law School in 1980. His career includes a stint in private practice in Washington, D.C., followed by a judicial clerkship with Judge Kenneth W. Starr of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. DeBow then served as an attorney-advisor to Federal Trade Commission chairman James C. Miller III and as a special assistant to Assistant Attorney General Douglas Ginsburg in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He began his teaching career at the University of Georgia business school. From 2000 to 2004, he was a part-time special assistant for legal policy to Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor. He has been a visiting professor of law at George Mason University, a Salvatori Fellow of The Heritage Foundation, and a member of the executive committee of the Association of Private Enterprise Education. In 2008 he was named an Adjunct Fellow of the Alabama Policy Institute. Professor DeBow's articles have appeared in such journals as theTexas Law ReviewHarvard Journal of Law & Public Policy,RegulationPolicy ReviewThe Freeman, and the Journal of Law & Politics. He co-edits the Federalist Society's Pre-Law Reading List and its annotated bibliography of conservative and libertarian legal scholarship.

Cost:

  • $15 - Payable at the door. Please make checks payable to the Capital City Club.

The event has been approved for one hour of CLE credit.