Event [4-18] (Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform)

[Neb Okla]

This seemed interesting. I'm posting details in case anyone else wants to
check it out:

Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform

Bradley A. Smith

Commissioner, Federal Election Commission

Monday, April 18, 2005

5:30 p.m.

Bridge of Learning (Ruff Learning Center Room 260)

Capital University

Directions: http://www.capital.edu/vis/directions.htm

Bradley A. Smith was nominated to the Federal Election Commission by
President William Clinton on February 9, 2000, and confirmed by the U.S.
Senate on May 24, 2000. He served as Chairman of the Commission in 2004.
Smith is Professor of Law (on leave) at Capital University Law School in
Columbus, Ohio, where he has taught Election Law, Comparative Election Law,
Jurisprudence, Law & Economics, and Civil Procedure. Smith's writings on
campaign finance and other election ! issues have appeared in the Yale Law
Journal, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Georgetown Law
Journal, the Harvard Journal of Legislation, the Cornell Journal of Law &
Public Policy, and other academic journals. As a law professor, Smith was a
much sought-after witness in Congress on matters of campaign finance reform,
and also a frequent guest on radio and television and a contributor to
popular publications such as the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. He is
the author of Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform (Princeton
University Press, 2001). Commissioner Smith received his B.A. cum laude from
Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan and his J.D., cum laude from
Harvard Law School.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

For more information on the lecture itself, contact Robert A. Lawson,
Capital University Professor of Economics and George H. Moor Chair, at
614-236-6138 or at rla...@capital.edu