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Tom Palmer (born 1956 in Moetsch, Germany) is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and is director of the Institute's eductional division, Cato University. He earned his B.A. in liberal arts from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, his M.A. in philosphy from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and his doctorate in political science from Oxford University, where he was an H. B. Earhart Fellow at Hertford College. He normally uses as his full name "Tom G. Palmer" and maintains a web site at www.tomgpalmer.com, where his curriculum vitae and some of his published articles can be found. In addition to writing on the philosophy of individual rights (e.g., in this essay from Individual Rights Reconsidered, edited by Tibor Machan [Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2001](http://www.tomgpalmer.com/papers/palmer-individualrightsreconsidered-chapter2.pdf), in his criticisms of the theories of Cass Sunstein and Stephen Holmes(http://www.tomgpalmer.com/papers/costofrights.pdf)(http://www.nationalreview.com/books/palmer200503011045.asp), and in his response to G. A. Cohen's attack on property rights(http://www.tomgpalmer.com/papers/palmer-cohen-cr-v12n3.pdf)), multicultural politics(http://www.tomgpalmer.com/papers/madison-and-multiculturalism.pdf), globalization(http://www.cato.org/pubs/letters/palmer-catoletters.pdf), globalization and personal(http://www.tomgpalmer.com/papers/palmer-globcosmoidentity.pdf) and cultural identity(http://www.tomgpalmer.com/papers/liberales2.pdf), and classical liberal political philosophy(http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/cpr-18n5-1.html)(http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v22n4/crosshairs.pdf)(http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v24n2/after911.pdf)(http://www.tomgpalmer.com/papers/palmer-whatsnotwrong-cr-v12n3.pdf)(http://www.reason.com/0501/cr.tp.john.shtml), he published an extensive bibliographical essay on libertarianism(http://www.theihs.org/pdf/subcategories/90.pdf)in The Libertarian Reader, ed. by David Boaz. Palmer has published law review articles(http://www.tomgpalmer.com/papers/palmer-morallyjustified-harvard-v13n3.pdf)(http://www.tomgpalmer.com/papers/palmer-non-posnerian-hamline-v12n2.pdf) on intellectual property that have garnered substantial attention within the legal and technological community for his general critique of patents and copyrights and his suggestions of contractual and technological solutions to the problems for which intellectual property rights are usually proposed as solutions.
Palmer has been active in the promotion of classical liberal (or libertarian) ideas and policies since the early 1970s. He has been editor of several publications, including Dollars & Sense (the newspaper of the National Taxpayers Union), Update, and the Humane Studies Review, and has published articles in such newspapers and magazines as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Spectator of London, National Review, Reason, and Slate(http://slate.msn.com/id/78474/), and reviews and articles in a variety of journals, including Ethics, Constitutional Political Economy, Cato Journal, Critical Review, Etica e Politica, Hamline Law Review, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. Before joining the Cato Institute, he was a vice president of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. During the late 1980s and the very early 1990s he worked with the Institute for Humane Studies and other organizations to spread classical liberal ideas in the countries of Soviet bloc. He smuggled books, photocopiers, and fax machines from an office in Vienna, Austria and traveled throughout the region to hold seminars, set up classical liberal think tanks and clubs, and extend the network of liberal thinkers. He arranged for translation and publication into a variety of central and eastern European languages of textbooks in economics and law, as well as seminal works by Ludwig von Mises, F. A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, and other thinkers in the classical liberal tradition. He is currently attempting to duplicate some of that work in Iraq and the wider Arab world. In April of 2005 he addressed members of the Iraqi parliament in the parliamentary assembly hall on constitutionalism. (His Powerpoint presentation to the parliament is available in English and in Arabic.) He has commissioned translation into Arabic and publication of works by Frederic Bastiat, F. A. Hayek, James Madison, and other classical liberal thinkers and has published essays in Arabic on such topics as "Challenges of Democratization" and "Religion and the Law." He continues to teach political economy and legal and constitutional history for the Institute for Humane Studies and the Institute for Economic Studies -- Europe.
His various political activities include being founding member and National Secretary of the Committee Against Registration and the Draft (1979-81), president of the Oxford Civil Liberties Society (1993-94), and manager or communications director for several political campaigns. Palmer is a member of the board of trustees of the Foundation for Economic Education, a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, and a Freeman of the City of London.
External links *tomgpalmer.com, Tom Palmer's personal weblog
*Biography of Tom Palmer, Cato Institute.
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