George Leef, Vice President of the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy and law school graduate, addressed the John Locke Foundation Shaftesbury Society Luncheon on April 28. In his talk titled "It's Time for the Legal Profession to Accept the Free Market" Leef argued that free markets could lead to many benefits for the legal profession. View his full presentation online
here.
George Leef holds a bachelor of arts degree from Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin and a Juris Doctor from Duke University School of Law. He was a vice president of the John Locke Foundation and director of the Pope Center until the Pope Center became an independent entity in 2003.
Previously, Leef was on the faculty of Northwood University in Midland, Michigan, where he taught courses in economics, business law, and logic. He has also worked as a policy adviser in the Michigan Senate, and since 1996 has served as book review editor of
The Freeman.
Leef is the author of
Free Choice for Workers: A History of the Right to Work Movement (2005) and editor of
Educating Teachers: The Best Minds Speak Out (2002). Leef has published widely, with articles and reviews appearing in the
Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Regulation, the
Christian Science Monitor, the
Detroit News, Raleigh News & Observer, the
Cato Journal, and other publications. He has testified before committees in the U.S. House of Representatives and the legislatures of Michigan and North Carolina and has made numerous TV and radio appearances.
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Recent Scholarship from Affiliates
Modern Economic Issues Lectures on CD and DVD
Faculty Affiliate Dr. Robert Whaples is Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics at Wake Forest University. In 2007 The Teaching Company filmed a series of 36 30-minute lectures presented by Dr. Whaples on current economic issues. They are available on CD and DVD.
Strategic Intercameral Behavior and the Sequence of Congressional Lawmaking
Faculty Affiliate Dr. Andrew J. Taylor recently published “Strategic Intercameral Behavior and the Sequence of Congressional Lawmaking” in the American Politics Research journal.
