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Author and Attorney Philip Howard to Speak at Duke Nov. 3 on Regulatory Reform

Philip Howard, an author and attorney, will discuss regulatory reform Nov. 3 at Duke's Divinity School

 

Author Philip Howard, an attorney working to reform the legal and regulatory system, will present a talk and join in a panel discussion at the Duke University Divinity School on Thursday, Nov. 3.

The 4 p.m. event in 0016 Westbrook is free and open to the public. The event also will be videotaped.

Howard is a partner at the law firm Covington & Burling LLP, and is the author of "Life Without Lawyers" (2009), "The Death of Common Sense" (1995) and "The Collapse of the Common Good" (2002).

Howard's talk, "Reclaiming Human Judgment in Public Choices," will be followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A session. Panelists are Sam Wells, dean of the Duke University Chapel; Lawrence Baxter, professor of the practice of law; and Joel Fleishman, professor of law and public policy. Richard Hays, dean of the Divinity School, will moderate.

Howard chaired the committee that installed the "Tribute in Light" Memorial for those who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on New York City. In 2002, he founded Common Good (www.commongood.org), a nonpartisan nonprofit organization committed to fixing America's broken legal and regulatory system. The nonprofit's advisory board is comprised of a variety of American political leaders, including former senators Howard Baker, Bill Bradley, George McGovern and Alan Simpson. In May 2011, Common Good launched the Start Over campaign to influence the 2012 election by organizing public support for cleaning out obsolete law.

This event is co-sponsored by the Duke Divinity School, the Duke University Chapel, the Duke Law School and the Sanford School of Public Policy. It is part of the Sanford School of Public Policy's school’s series "Gridlock: Can Our System Address America's Big Problems?", which explores problems in current politics that are crippling the ability to deal with long-term, large-scale challenges. Parking is available in the Science Drive visitors lot.