Liberty League Conference 2011

The moment you’ve all been waiting for is here! Applications for the Liberty League Conference 2011, the UK libertarian event of the year are now open.

The National Liberal Club

Date: Saturday, October 22nd 2011

Time: Kicks off at 11am, with Dinner from 8pm

Venue: National Liberal Club, 1 Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2HE

Click here to APPLY.

There are only 50 student, and 50 non-student places, so make sure you apply quickly! Once your application is accepted, the fees are £30 for students, and £65 for non-students. This not only pays for a day full of libertarian lectures and discussion, but for a set dinner at the end.

Confirmed speakers (more tbc):

Speaking on “Where next for Education?” in the Institute of Economic Affairs Panel

• Chair: Professor Philip Booth, editorial and programme of the Institute of Economic Affairs, and professor of insurance and risk management at Cass Business School
• Toby Young, author, journalist, and one of the driving forces behind the West London Free School
• Professor James Tooley, author of “The Beautiful Tree”, director of the E.G. West Centre, and professor of education policy at Newcastle University
• Dale Bassett, research director at Reform
• Professor Len Shackleton, former dean of the UEL Royal Docks Business School, and of the University of Westminster Business School.

Speaking on “How the State Harms the Poor”

• Chair: Sam Bowman, head of research at the Adam Smith Institute
• Kristian Niemitz, poverty research fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs
• Brendan O’Neill, editor of Spiked magazine
• Dr Anthony Daniels (aka Theodore Dalrymple), columnist, author, doctor and psychiatrist
• Dr Mark Pennington, reader in public policy at Queen Mary University, and author of “Robust Political Economy: Classical Liberalism and the Future of Public Policy”

Debating the Chicago vs. Austrian economic schools in The Cobden Centre Debate:

• Referee: Dr Eamonn Butler, director of the Adam Smith Institute and author of “The Condensed Wealth of Nations”
• On the Chicago side: Dr Andrew Lilico, director of Europe Economics, and member of the IES/Sunday Times Shadow Monetary Policy Committee
• On the Austrian side: Dr Adam Martin, post-doctoral fellow at New York University

Speaking on whether “Islam and Libertarianism” can and should be reconciled:

• Mustafa Akyol, journalist, Turkish newspaper columnist and author of “Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty”.

Our after-dinner speaker on future challenges to liberty is the Member of Parliament for Wycombe:

• Steve Baker MP, co-founder of the Cobden Centre, chartered engineer, and former engineer officer in the Royal Air Force.

Attendees at the dinner of the Liberty League Freedom Forum 2011

Alex Deane speaking at the Liberty League Freedom Forum 2011