Lecturers
The lecturers of the seminar are: Carlo Lottieri (Political Science), Pierre Garello (Economics), Tibor Machan (Philosophy), Boudewijn Bouckaert (Law), Colin Ganley (History).
Carlo Lottieri
Carlo Lottieri (born November 6, 1960) is an Italian libertarian philosopher. He studied Philosophy in Genoa and Sociology in Geneva (Institut Universitaire d’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 Idéologie 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 & Libertà » (Milan) and with Luigi Marco Bassani and Mauro Maldonato he edited a books collection about the history of political ideas («Sfere della libertà », Guida publisher). Now he is one of the editors of a books collection about political philosophy and free-market economy («Diritto, Mercato, Libertà », Rubbettino publisher). He published papers in many journals: Telos, Journal of Libertarian Studies, L'Année 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.
(source: http://www.wikipedia.org)
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.
Tibor Machan
Tibor Machan was smuggled out of Hungary in 1953 when he was 14 and emigrated to the United States in 1956.
He is a philosopher, a Hoover Institution research fellow, and a professor at the Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chapman University.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Machan co-founded Reason Magazine. He is on the advisory boards for several foundations and think tanks.
Machan is widely published and is the author of several books on classical liberalism and libertarianism. His last books are : "Putting Humans First", "Objectivity: Recovering Determinate Reality in Philosophy, Science, and Everyday Life" and "Marxism revisited".
:: Read more on the website of the Hoover Institution
:: BBC about Tibor Machan
:: His Blog
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.
Colin Ganley
Colin C. Ganley is an Economic Historian at Oxford University. He was born in Minnesota, USA and he studied Economics, Finance and International Studies at Bentley College in Boston Massachusetts. He earned his master’s degree at the London School of Economics in Economic History and is writing his doctoral thesis at Oxford University.
He is the President of The Mucker’s Club NGO based in Boston, MA, USA. The NGO brings educational opportunities to underprivileged communities around the world.
He has lectured on Globalization, South Asian History, Business Ethics and other topics for organizations in the USA and Europe. His current research interests are in the foundations of globalization and imperialism and cigar economics.
He is currently the Economic History Editor of the Journal of the Oxford University Historical Society and is working on publications in the fields of history and economics.