Record of
Proceedings:
THE ANNUAL LONDON CONFERENCE
OF THE LIBERTARIAN ALLIANCE
AND THE LIBERTARIAN INTERNATIONAL
Saturday 22 November -
Sunday 23 November, 2003
Saturday:
10.00am-6.00pm
Sunday:
10.00am-7.00pm
Sunday - Banquet:
8.00pm-11.00pm
The National Liberal
Club
Whitehall Place
London SW1A 2HE
England
SPEAKERS AND
SUBJECTS:
Saturday Session
Sunday Session
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About The Speakers:
David Carr is the Libertarian Alliance's
Legal Affairs spokesman and a senior member of the Samizdata.net team
(www.samizdata.net/blog/). A graduate in law from Trent Polytechnic,
he is today a practising solicitor. He is the author of a number of
LA publications, including Don't Trust Me, I'm a
Lawyer: The Operation, Scope and Possible Effects of the
Government's War on Money Laundering, Why Is the
Creative World So Socialist and What, if Anything, Can We Do About
It?, DIY Hollywood: Independent Film-Making and How Cheap Digital
Technology Will Transform It, Let's Start World War Three: Ideas
are Our Bombs and Words are Our Bullets, and Between
'Slaves of Ruffians' and 'The Decision of the
Sword': In Support of the Common Law Tradition of
Self-Defence.
Dr. Phil Collins is Director of the Social
Market Foundation an influential voice in recent health, education,
welfare and pensions policy reform. Its current work reflects a
commitment to understanding how individuals, society and the state
can work together to achieve the common goal of creating a just and
free society. (http://www.smf.co.uk). He was educated at the
universities of Birmingham, London and Cambridge in History, Politics
and Political Theory respectively. Immediately before joining the SMF
he was Head of UK Equity Strategy at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and
before that at HSBC James Capel and Fleming Investment Management. He
has also had spells working at the BBC, LWT, the Institute of
Education and for Frank Field MP. His main research interests are in
the fields of education and race and nationhood and his first novel,
The Men From The Boys was published 2002.
Dr. David Conway is Senior Research Fellow in
Theology and Religious Studies at Roehampton University of Surrey,
and formerly Professor of Philosophy at Middlesex University. He is
the author of A Farewell to Marx, Classical Liberalism:
The Unvanquished Ideal, Free Market Feminism, Equal
Opportunity: A Feminist Fallacy and The Rediscovery of
Wisdom: From Here to Antiquity in Search of Sophia, and, for the
LA, The Ethical Justification of Nuclear Deterrence, as well
as articles in other books and scholarly and other journals.
Paul Coulam is a graduate of Leicester
University, and has an MSc in Political Philosophy from the London
School of Economics. He is Commissioning Editor for Philosophy for
the academic publisher Ashgate Publishing (http://www.ashgate.com/),
and is the author, for the LA, of For a New Libertarianism:
Problems and Perspectives in Friedman, Rothbard and Rand and
Do We Chose To Do What We Do?
Dr. Stephen Davies is Lecturer in History at
Manchester Metropolitan University. He is co-editor of A
Dictionary of Conservative and Libertarian Thought, and has
contributed to a wide range of journals and books including
Economic Affairs, Cato Journal, The Journal of
Social Philosophy and Policy, Critical Review, The
'New Right' Enlightenment, The State or the Market,
and Crime and the Law. His first book, Empiricism and
History, has just been published by Palgrave. For the LA he has
written Globalisation is Good, Libertarian Feminism in
Britain, and Towards the Remoralisation of Society.
Professor David Marsland is Professor of Health
Informatics at Brunel University. Amongst his many books are
Seeds of Bankruptcy: Sociological Bias Against Business and
Freedom, Welfare or Welfare State: Contradictions and
Dilemmas in Social Policy, Public Sector Enterprise: A Contradiction
in Terms, Work and Employment in Liberal Democratic Societies,
Education For Defeat, Cradle to Grave: Comparative
Perspectives on the State of Welfare, Education and Youth,
Self Reliance: Reforming Welfare in Advanced Societies,
Understanding Youth: Issues and Methods in Social Education.
He has also contributed to many scholarly and political journal
including The British Journal of Sociology, The American
Sociologist, Society, Economic Affairs,
and Salisbury Review. For the LA he has written In
Defence of British Values, Beyond the Welfare State,
and After Empire. In 1991 he was the first recipient of The
Thatcher Award, in recognition of his research and writing on
individualism and freedom.
Alberto Mingardi is currently a Visiting Fellow
at the Centre for the New Europe (http://www.cne.org) in Brussels,
having formerly been Visiting Fellow at both the Atlas Research
Foundation and the Acton Institute. He is Editorial Director of
Leonardo Facco Editore (Treviglio), and a member of the Scientific
Committee of the Foundazione Liberal (Rome). His articles have
appeared in a wide range of scholarly and political journals and
websites, including The Wall Street Journal Europe, The
Wall Street Journal Asia, Economic Affairs, Markets
and Morality, National Review On Line,
Anti-State.com, and
LewRockwell.com. In Italy he
is a regular contributor to the dailies Libero and Il
Riformista. His study of the great Thomistic-Aristotelian
philosopher Antonio Rosmini Serbati (1797-1855) will shortly be
appearing in Markets and Morality. He is also the author of
1999 Fuga Dall Stato, co-editor of Il Coraggio della
Libertà (a Festschrift in honor of Italian
economist Sergio Ricossa) and is co-author, with Carlo Stagnaro, of a
forthcoming book on J. R. R. Tolkien's political thought.
Dr Larry O'Hara is the UK's leading
expert on contemporary fascist and nazi movements and a leading
investigatory journalist on the secret state and
"parapolitical" issues. A socialist, he is the editor of
the investigatory journal, Notes From the Borderland, and
author of a number of monographs, including Searchlight For
Beginners, Turning Up the Heat: MI5 After the Cold War, and
Paradise Referred Back: A Radical Look at the Green Party. A
number of his essays have also appeared in Lobster,
including "British Fascism, 1974-1992", "Combat 18 and
MI5: Some Background Notes" and "The 1986 National Front
Split". As a result of his research he has been the target of
smear campaigns, violence, and provocations to violence and murder by
both nazis and the pseudo-Marxist espionage, disinformation and
violence group Searchlight. His twice-yearly journal of
para-politics, Notes from the Borderland, has feature
articles on illegal secret state disruption of the Euro-sceptic
movement, attempted fascist infiltration of Euro-scepticism, the
Shayler case, and intelligence agency involvement in the Soho
bombings. Details can be found at: www.borderland.co.uk
Dr. Dennis O'Keeffe is Senior Research
Fellow in Education at the Institute of Economic Affairs and
Professor of Social Science at the University of Buckingham. His many
books and monographs include The Wayward Elite, Homage
to Orwell, Truancy in English Schools, School
Attendance and Truancy, Education and Indoctrination,
Political Correctness and Public Finances and he has
contributed to numerous journals, including Salisbury
Review, The World and I, Encounter Economic
Affairs, and the LA's Free Life. Also for the LA he
has written The Follies of Multiculturalism. He is author of
two forthcoming works, Economy and Virtue: Essays on Markets and
Morality and (with David Marsland) Reform or Stagnation in
British Universities. His translation - the first - of Benjamin
Constant's Principe du Politique will be published by
Liberty Press in January 2004. He is also Editor of Salisbury
Review.
Carlo Stagnaro is a free-lance journalist
based in Italy, co-editor of the libertarian magazine
Enclave (Treviglio, Italy), and a Fellow of International
Policy Network (London, UK). His articles have been published in a
wide range of magazines, in Italy and abroad, including Il
Giornale (Milan), Il Domenicale (Milan),
Ideazione (Rome), Fondazione Liberal
(Rome), National Review Online (New York),
LewRockwell.com (Auburn, Alabama), Chronicles
(Rockford, Illinois), and The Journal of Firearms and Public
Policy (Bellevue, Washington). He was editor of he book
Waco: Una Strage di Stato Americano, is contributor to a
book on global warming and the costs of the Kyoto Protocol, the
author of a book on Giovannino Guareschi, and, with Alberto Mingardi,
of a forthcoming book on the politics of J.R.R. Tolkein. His website
(in English) is: http://www.forces.org/stagnaro/index_eng.htm
Dr. Bill Thompson is former Lecturer in Human
Sexuality at the University of Reading, and one of Britain's
leading experts on pornography and child abuse. His books include
Soft Core: Moral Crusades Against Pornography in Britain and
America and Sadomasochism: Painful Perversion or Pleasurable
Play? For the LA he has written Moral Crusades and Media
Censorship. He has contributed to many scholarly books
including Ill-Effects: The Media Violence Debate,
Charismatic Politics: The Social and Political Impact of
Renewal, Child Sex Abuse and the Internet, Religion
and Contemporary Issues, and to scholarly journals including
Politics and Society, The International Journal of
Politics, Culture and Society, and Franco-British
Studies. He is a frequent expert witness in both UK and
international legal cases involving pornography and sexual offences
and also appears frequently on the British media.
Scott Tips is the former Managing Editor of
the California Law Review and a successful attorney with
clients in both the US and Europe. He is a recognized expert and
leader in the fields of FDA law, drug law, pharmaceutical law,
trademarks, and tax shelter law and also general counsel to the
National Health Federation, the USA's leading non-profit consumer
health-rights organization. The National Health Federation
(http://www.thenhf.com/) has thousands of members who share the
Federation's goal of providing United States citizens with full
and complete access to all types and varieties of health products,
supplements, and treatments without undue government
interference.
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