| Events by Ted Frank |
| Resident Fellow and Director of the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest |
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Is There a Constitutional Right to Medical Self-Defense?
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Friday, December 8, 2006
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| Is medical self-defense a coherent legal concept that can justify constitutional intervention by courts in controversial cases regarding abortion or organ sales? |
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Watters v. Wachovia Bank
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006
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| Does federal banking law bar states from regulating the activities of state-chartered subsidiaries of national banks? What should the appropriate scope of the National Bank Act be? |
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Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006
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| In his new book Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity (Hyperion, May 2006), John Stossel tackles the misconceptions, misrepresentations, and plain inanity that plague our society. |
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Judge and Jury: American Tort Law on Trial
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Friday, May 12, 2006
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| Is the tort system in crisis? What is driving the increase in tort awards? Do jury awards vary along lines of wealth and race? |
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The U.S. Senate Takes On Medical Malpractice Reform
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Monday, April 24, 2006
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| What is the appropriate role of the federal government in addressing the issue of medical malpractice and what are the potential conflicts between the federal government and the states? |
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The Cutter Incident
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Friday, April 14, 2006
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| Paul A. Offit presents his book The Cutter Incident : How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis. |
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Medical Malpractice Liability and Physician Supply
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Wednesday, April 5, 2006
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| Do doctors really flee certain states, avoid high-risk specialties such as neurosurgery and obstetrics, or even forgo practicing medicine as a result of ever-growing liability concerns? |
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Abortion Legalization and Crime Rates
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Tuesday, March 28, 2006
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| Is there a link between legalized abortion and crime rates? If so, in which direction is it? |
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Sarbanes-Oxley: What Have We Learned?
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Monday, March 13, 2006
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| At this AEI event Larry Ribstein Henry N. Butler discuss their forthcoming monograph, The Sarbanes-Oxley Debacle: How to Fix It and What We’ve Learned. |
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Will the FAIR Act Fix the Asbestos Mess?
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Thursday, January 19, 2006
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| The Fairness in Asbestos Injury Recovery (FAIR) Act, S. 852, would establish a $140 billion trust fund to compensate victims of asbestos-related diseases. |
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Ted Frank
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington 20036
Phone: 202-862-5857
Assistant: 202-862-5820
Fax: 202-862-7178
E-mail: TFrank@aei.org
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