JANUARY 15, 2012 |
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Economic Liberty
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www.PacificLegal.org
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TIM SANDEFUR |
Today's guest:
Tim Sandefur
About
Tim
Practice areas
Economic Liberty
Eminent Domain
Background
Timothy Sandefur is a Principal Attorney at the Pacific Legal
Foundation. As the lead attorney in the Foundation’s Economic
Liberty Project, he works to protect businesses against abusive
government regulation.
He also works to prevent the abuse of eminent domain, having
litigated important eminent domain cases in California, Missouri,
and elsewhere, and having filed briefs in many significant eminent
domain cases, including Kelo v. New London. |
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Publications /
Achievements |
He is the author of two books,
Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st Century America and
The Right to Earn A Living: Economic Freedom And The Law, as well as
some 40 scholarly articles on subjects ranging from eminent domain
and economic liberty to copyright, evolution and creationism, and
the legal issues of slavery and the Civil War. His articles have
appeared in Liberty, National Review Online, The Claremont Review of
Books, Forbes Online, The San Francisco Chronicle, Regulation, and
The Washington Times, among other places. He is an adjunct professor
of law at the McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento. In February,
2006, he became one of the youngest attorneys ever featured on the
cover of California Lawyer magazine. He is a frequent guest on radio
and television programs, including The Armstrong and Getty Show, the
Jim Lehrer News Hour, and NPR’s This American Life. |
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Education |
Sandefur is a graduate of
Chapman University School of Law and Hillsdale College.
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EPA ASSAULT ON
PROPERTY RIGHTS |
The Sacketts' Testimony
at "Property Wrongs" Hearing ,October 12, 2011 |
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Video: PLF and the
Sacketts take EPA to the Supreme Court |
click here for
info:
http://www.pacificlegal.org/page.aspx?pid=616
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Video: Timothy Sandefur on The Right to Earn a Living
8 minutes |
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The
Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law
America's founders thought the
right to earn a living was so basic and obvious that it didn't need
to be mentioned in the Bill of Rights. Yet today that right is
burdened by a wide array of government rules and regulations that
play favorites, rewrite contracts, encourage frivolous lawsuits,
seize private property, and manipulate economic choices to achieve
outcomes that bureaucrats favor. The Right to Earn a Living charts
the history of this fundamental human right, from the constitutional
system that was designed to protect it by limiting government's
powers, to the Civil War Amendments that expanded protection to all
Americans, regardless of race. It then focuses on the
Progressive-era judges who began to erode those protections, and
concludes with today's controversies over abusive occupational
licensing laws, freedom of speech in advertising, regulatory
takings, and much more. -
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Websites and
material mentioned on
today's program: |
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