Lecturers
The lecturers of this seminar in 2008 are: Carlo Lottieri (Political Science), Pierre Garello(Economics), Tom Palmer (Philosophy), Boudewijn Bouckaert (Law).
Carlo Lottieri
Carlo Lottieri (born November 6, 1960) is an Italian libertarian philosopher. He studied Philosophy in Genoa and Sociology in Geneva (Institut Universitaire des Etudes Européennes) and Paris, where he obtained a D.E.A. and a Ph.D. at the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne). His thesis was written under the direction of Raymond Boudon and his topic was 'Ideologie et science dans la sociologie politique de Gaetano Mosca'. In 1989 he received a Claude Lambe Fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies, (Fairfax, VA), in 1990 a fellowship from the European Council and in 1991 another one from the Murst (Italian department of the universitarian education).
After some years of collaboration with the chair of Political Sociology (prof. Vaclav Belohradsky, University of Trieste), in 1999 he became Assistant Researcher in Political Philosophy in the University of Siena. He taught Sociology and Economics at the ISC (Istituto Superiore di Comunicazione) of Milan in the period 1997-1999.
From 1999 he is in the Faculty of the Summer Seminars organized in Gummersbach (Germany) and in Yundola (Bulgaria) by IES, Institute for Economic Studies.
In 2003 he became Assistant Professor Philosophy of Law at the University of Siena.
He has been Editorial Director of the journal "Federalismo & Liberta" (Milan) and with Luigi Marco Bassani and Mauro Maldonato he edited a books collection about the history of political ideas ("Sfere della liberta", Guida publisher). Now he is one of the editors of a books collection about political philosophy and free-market economy ("Diritto, Mercato, Liberta", Rubbettino publisher). He published papers in many journals: Telos, Journal of Libertarian Studies, L'Anne sociologique and others.
He is director of the Political Theory department of the Istituto Bruno Leoni.
His main studies concern libertarian political philosophy (Murray Rothbard, Robert Nozick and Hans-Hermann Hoppe), elitism (Vilfredo Pareto and Gaetano Mosca), evolutionary theory of law (Bruno Leoni and Friedrich von Hayek), communitarianism and the contemporary leanings of federal thought.
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Pierre Garello
Pierre Garello, director of IES-Europe, is Professor of Economics at the Faculté d'Economie Appliquée of Paul Cézanne University in Aix-en-Provence, France. He is responsible for the research at the Paul Cézanne University. He has published various articles on Austrian economics, law and economics (especially competition law and contract law).
He received his PhD in economics in 1992 from New York University where he worked on perception and decision theories.
He is a member of the IREF, a think tank that promotes fiscal federalism.
He is also at the center of a liberal network in Europe and is the coordinator of the European liberal think tanks Resource Bank.
Boudewijn Bouckaert
Boudewijn Bouckaert is chairman of the belgian classical liberal thinktank Nova Civitas.
Boudewijn Bouckaert holds a PhD and works as a University Professor at the Law School of the University of Ghent, the University of Paris and the University of Aix-Marseille. He is director of the Department of Legal Theory and History.
He has been lecturer at the Institute for Humane Studies in Fairfax, Virginia, at the Institute for Economic Studies in Paris, France and also at Harvard University. He is a member of the Belgian High Council for Judicial Matters and chairman of the Land Management Committee.
Tom Palmer
Tom G. Palmer is Vice President for International Programs at the Cato Institute, director of the Center for Promotion of Human Rights, a Senior Fellow of the Institute, and director of Cato University, the Institute's educational arm. He was very active in the late 1980s and the early 1990s in the spread of classical liberal ideas in the Soviet bloc states and their successors and continues to be active throughout the region through his work with www.cato.ru, the Cato Institute's Russian-language program, and with the Institute's European programs. He also established and supervises Cato's programs in Arabic, Persian, Kurdish, Azeri, Portuguese, Chinese, and throughout Africa. Before joining Cato he was an H. B. Earhart Fellow at Hertford College, Oxford University, and a vice president of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. He frequently lectures in North America, Europe, Eurasia, Africa, Latin America, China, and the Middle East on political science, public choice, civil society, and the moral, legal, and historical foundations of individual rights. He has published reviews and articles on politics and morality in scholarly journals such as the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Ethics, Critical Review, and Constitutional Political Economy, as well as in publications such as Slate, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Spectator of London. He received his B.A. in liberal arts from St. Johns College in Annapolis, Maryland, his M.A. in philosophy from The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and his Ph.D. in politics from Oxford University.
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