If you are a student with libertarian curiosity, you should consider attending a thought-provoking summer seminar organized by The Institute for Humane Studies. The faculty present their ideas and expect to be challenged by students, as well as by other professors, inside and outside the classroom. There is lots of time for informal interaction. Lectures are interdisciplinary with an overall theme of liberty, but there is no party line.
My first association with IHS came in 1975 when I received an IHS Law & Liberty Fellowship in the summer after my first year of law school that enabled me to write what became my 1977 article, “Restitution: A New Paradigm of Criminal Justice.” I started teaching in the IHS summer seminars when they began in 1980 by taking vacation time from the Cook County States Attorney’s Office. Writing and giving those lectures provoked my decision to move to academia from practice. After a long hiatus, I resumed teaching last year at the Advanced Studies in Liberty Seminar, which this summer will be held at Loyola in Chicago. More information on all the seminars is available here. Now, the IHS has made some videos about the seminar experience featuring faculty and students that you can watch here:
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