The George H. Moor Chair was established in 1976 with a gift from the estate of Mr. Moor, a Columbus building contractor. The Moor Chair was the first endowed chair established at Capital University. Dr. Robert A. Lawson, Professor of Economics currently holds the Chair. Previous holders include John Wellington, Richard Schwab and Jan Hansen.
The Moor Chair supports Dr. Lawson's on-going research in measuring economic freedom and provides funding for an on-campus lecture series. All Moor Chair events are free and open to the public.
Upcoming George H. Moor Lectures
Friday, April 13, 2007
Sullivan Lecture at Capital University Law School
Randy E. Barnett
Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory
Georgetown University Law Center
Capital University Law School
About the speaker: Randy E. Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law. He has also taught torts, criminal law, evidence, agency and partnership, and jurisprudence. After graduating from Northwestern University and Harvard Law School, he tried many felony cases as a prosecutor in the Cook County States' Attorney's Office in Chicago. In November 2004, he appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court to argue the medical cannabis case of Gonzalez v. Raich , after successfully arguing in the Ninth Circuit in 2003. He also represents the Oakland Cannabis Buyers Cooperative. He also coauthored an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in the case of Lawrence v. Texas. Professor Barnett lectures internationally and appears frequently on radio and television programs such as the CBS Evening News, The News Hour (PBS), Talk of the Nation (NPR), and the Ricki Lake Show. Professor Barnett's scholarship includes more than eighty articles and reviews, as well as seven books, including Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty, (Princeton, 2004), which was awarded the Lysander Spooner Book Award for the best book on liberty for 2004,Contracts Cases and Doctrine (Aspen, 3rd ed. 2003) and Perspectives on Contract Law (Aspen, 3rd ed. 2005). His book The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law (Oxford, 1998) was awarded the Ralph Gregory Elliot Book Award and has been translated into Japanese. Professor Barnett is a senior fellow of the Cato Institute in Washington DC and the Goldwater Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. Before moving to Boston University, he was the Legal Affairs Contributor for WBEZ (NPR) in Chicago where he broadcast a 15-hour series on the Bill of Rights.
*co-sponsored with Capital's Law School
Previous Moor LecturesSince 2000, the George H. Moor Lecture Series has brought though provoking speakers to Capital University. These speakers have included: Andrei Illarionov, senior economics advisor to Russian president Putin; Nick Gillespie, editor or Reason; Brad Smith, former chairman of the Federal Election Commission and a Capital University law professor; Tyler Cowen, author and professor of economics at George Mason University; and many more.
About Dr. Lawson
Dr. Lawson has co-authored several volumes of Economic Freedom of the World published by Canada's Fraser Institute. This work receives widespread attention from both researchers and the popular media throughout the world. In addition, Lawson is author or co-author of numerous journal articles and policy reports on taxation and government spending. He is a senior fellow the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions, a free-market think tank in Ohio. He also maintains a popular blog regarding free markets at www.divisionoflabour.com.
Dr. Lawson earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in economics at Florida State University in 1991 and 1992 respectively, and received his B.S. in economics from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University in 1988.