Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Resolution

Today's school-choice movement in the U.S. is worthy of support by libertarians.

For the affirmative:

Corey DeAngelis is a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children. He is also the executive director at Educational Freedom Institute, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, a senior fellow at Reason Foundation, and a board member at Liberty Justice Center. He was named on the Forbes 30 under 30 list for his work on education policy and received the Buckley Award from America’s Future in 2020. He additionally received the Future 40 Award from Maverick PAC in 2021 and the OCPA Citizenship Award in 2022.

For the negative:

Stephan Kinsella (LL.M., King’s College London; JD, Paul M. Hebert Law Center, LSU; BSEE and MSEE, LSU) is a libertarian writer and patent attorney in Houston. He was previously General Counsel for Applied Optoelectronics, Inc., a partner with Duane Morris (Philadelphia and Houston), and adjunct law professor at South Texas College of Law Houston. His publications include Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution (Oxford University Press, 2020), and Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, forthcoming 2023).