Professor of Law and Co-Director, Ordered Liberty Program, University of Louisville
Luke Milligan is a Professor of Law and criminal defense lawyer who works from the U.S. and Hungary.
He was previously with Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C., where he practiced white-collar criminal defense. Published widely on the law of criminal procedure, his scholarship on the Fourth Amendment inspired the establishment of a litigation and public relations center at one of the world’s top public interest firms, the Institute for Justice, in Arlington, Virginia. He is a co-founder of the Ordered Liberty Program (with Prof. Justin Walker, now Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit). He sits on the Board of Advisors of the Cato Supreme Court Review in Washington, D.C.
He’s been a visiting professor at Emory University School of Law, as well as on the law faculties of the University of Lisbon and the University of Milan. In Hungary, he is the founder and co-director of the Ordered Liberty School in Central Europe, based at Ludovika University in Budapest.
Of Counsel to a U.S.-based law firm, he’s represented individuals in a wide array of state and federal prosecutions. In 2020 and 2021, he fought the COVID-19 mandates in the U.S. He was lead counsel to U.S. Senator Rand Paul in landmark separation-of-powers litigation, stripping the Governor of Kentucky of “inherent authority” under the constitution, and, in turn, bringing an end to all statewide COVID-19 orders (notably, curfews, capacity limits, and masking requirements). He holds a tenured faculty position at the University of Louisville, where he teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Jurisprudence, and Natural Law & Natural Rights. He’s been named Professor of the Year by alumni and hooding professor by five graduating classes.
He began his career as law clerk to the Hon. Edith Brown Clement of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Hon. Martin L.C. Feldman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He received a J.D., with honors, from Emory University, where he was Articles Editor of the Emory Law Journal.
He and his wife, Sarah Peterson, have three sons, John, Mark, and Luke, Jr.
Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
John K. Bush is a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. His chambers are in Louisville, Kentucky. Prior to joining the court, Judge Bush was a partner in the Louisville office of Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP, where he also was co-chair of the firm’s litigation department. He began his legal practice in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
Judge Bush served as a law clerk for Judge J. Smith Henley of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He was graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt University in 1986, and cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1989.
Professor Emeritus, Santa Clara University School of Law
David D. Friedman is an academic economist with a doctorate in physics, retired from 23 years of teaching in a law school. His first book, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism, was published in 1973 and includes a description of how a society with property rights and without government might function. There, as elsewhere, he offers a consequentialist defense of libertarianism.
His most recent non-fiction book is Legal Systems Very Different from Ours, covering systems from Periclean Athens through modern Amish and Romany. He is also the author of three novels, one commercially published and two self-published, and, with his wife, a self-published medieval and renaissance cookbook and a larger self-published book related to their hobby of historical recreation. Most of his writing, including full text of most of his nonfiction books, and recordings of many of his talks can be found on his web page: www.daviddfriedman.com. His current work is available at https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/
His Substack posts covering a wide range of topics come out every three days; a list of past posts sorted by topic is on his web page. One current project is converting past posts on consequences of climate change into a book.
Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
John K. Bush is a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. His chambers are in Louisville, Kentucky. Prior to joining the court, Judge Bush was a partner in the Louisville office of Bingham Greenebaum Doll LLP, where he also was co-chair of the firm’s litigation department. He began his legal practice in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
Judge Bush served as a law clerk for Judge J. Smith Henley of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. He was graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt University in 1986, and cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1989.
Professor Emeritus, Santa Clara University School of Law
David D. Friedman is an academic economist with a doctorate in physics, retired from 23 years of teaching in a law school. His first book, The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism, was published in 1973 and includes a description of how a society with property rights and without government might function. There, as elsewhere, he offers a consequentialist defense of libertarianism.
His most recent non-fiction book is Legal Systems Very Different from Ours, covering systems from Periclean Athens through modern Amish and Romany. He is also the author of three novels, one commercially published and two self-published, and, with his wife, a self-published medieval and renaissance cookbook and a larger self-published book related to their hobby of historical recreation. Most of his writing, including full text of most of his nonfiction books, and recordings of many of his talks can be found on his web page: www.daviddfriedman.com. His current work is available at https://daviddfriedman.substack.com/
His Substack posts covering a wide range of topics come out every three days; a list of past posts sorted by topic is on his web page. One current project is converting past posts on consequences of climate change into a book.
Government Surveillance and the Original Meaning of the Fourth Amendment
Louisville, KentuckyThe Constitution and the Importance of Interpretation: Original Meaning
John K. Bush, Allison Martens, Michael P. McDonald, Lynn Olympia, Charles Ziegler, David D. Friedman
The Louisville Lawyers Chapter co-sponsored this event with The Alexander Hamilton Historical Society of Kentucky...
The Constitution and the Importance of Interpretation: Original Meaning
Louisville Lawyers Chapter, The Alexander Hamilton Historical Society of Kentucky, and the League of Women Voters of Kentucky
Louisville, KY