George Washington Forum News and Events

Ambassador John R. Bolton (American Enterprise Institute)

Ambassador John R. Bolton is a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. After completing his undergraduate and law degrees at Yale, he has spent many years in public service as a diplomat and lawyer. From August 2005 to December 2006, he served as the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations. From 2001 to 2005, he was under secretary of state for arms control and international security. During the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, Bolton worked in the State Department as an assistant secretary for International Organization Affairs, in the Justice Department as an assistant attorney general and in the U.S. Agency for International Development. Bolton’s lecture is co-sponsored by the Ohio University chapter of the Alexander Hamilton Society.

Eugene Kontorovich (Northwestern University)

Eugene Kontorovich is Professor of Law at Northwestern University. Having studied as both an undergraduate and law student at the University of Chicago, he clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit before beginning to teach at Northwestern. He has published widely on constitutional law, international law and law and economics. Currently completing a book for Harvard University Press on Justice at Sea: Piracy and the Limits of International Criminal Law, he has also written and lectured widely on the legal aspects of the Israel-Arab conflict. Kontorovich’s lecture is co-sponsored by the Ohio University chapter of the Alexander Hamilton Society.

Luigi Zingales (University of Chicago)

Luigi Zingales is Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. A native of Italy, Zingales earned his PhD in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992; he has taught at the University of Chicago ever since. The winner of the Germán Bernácer Prize for the best European economist under 40 working on macro-finance, he has written two widely-reviewed books, Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists (2003) and A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity (2012).

Peter Lake (Vanderbilt University)

Peter Lake is University Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of the History of Christianity in the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. Before coming to Vanderbilt in 2008, he taught at Princeton University and Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of four books, including The Trials of Margaret Clitherow (2011); The Antichrist’s Lewd Hat (2002), The Boxmaker’s Revenge (2002); Anglicans and Puritans? (1988) and Moderate Puritans and the Elizabethan Church (1982). In 2010-2011, he gave the Ford Lectures at the University of Oxford. He is currently completing a book on Shakespeare’s history plays.

Richard W. Garnett (University of Notre Dame Law School)

Richard W. Garnett is the Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School. A graduate of Yale Law School, he clerked for Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist and practiced law briefly before joining the Notre Dame faculty in 1999. He teaches and writes about the freedoms of speech, association, and religion, and also about constitutional law more generally. He is a leading authority on questions and debates regarding the role of religious believers and beliefs in politics and society. He has published widely on these matters, and is the author of dozens of law-review articles and book chapters. In addition, he has written widely on religion and the Constitution for places such as the Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, National Review, Los Angeles Times and USA Today and has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, NPR and FOX News to discuss his work. He is currently completing a book called Two There Are: Understanding the Separation of Church and State, which will be published by Cambridge University Press.

The Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost and the George Washington Forum are sponsoring this event.