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PROFESSIONAL LIFE Palmer earned his B.A. in liberal arts from St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, his M.A. in philosophy from The Catholic University Of America in Washington, D.C., and his doctorate in Political Science from Oxford University , where he was an H. B. Earhart Fellow at Hertford College. Palmer has been active in the promotion of libertarian ideas and policies since the early 1970s. He has been editor of several publications, including ''Dollars & Sense'' (the newspaper of the , ''Critical Review'', '' Etica e Politica '', ''Hamline Law Review'', and the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. He continues to teach political economy and legal and constitutional history for the Institute for Humane Studies and the Institute for Economic Studies -- Europe . He also works with such organizations as the Liberty Fund , the Council on Public Policy , and the Atlas Economic Research Foundation , which designated him in 2005 a member of their " International Freedom Corps ." INVOLVEMENT IN EASTERN EUROPE Before joining the Cato Institute, he was a vice president of the Institute For Humane Studies at George Mason University. During the late 1980s and the very early 1990s he worked with the Institute for Humane Studies and other organizations to spread libertarian ideas in Eastern Europe. He traveled throughout the region to hold seminars and smuggled books, cash, photocopiers, and fax machines from an office in Vienna, Austria. He arranged for translation and publication into a variety of central and eastern European languages of textbooks in economics and law, as well as seminal works by Ludwig Von Mises , F. A. Hayek , Milton Friedman , and other thinkers in the libertarian tradition. {Link without Title} {Link without Title} INVOLVEMENT IN ARAB WORLD Palmer is currently attempting to duplicate in Iraq and the wider Arab world some of the work he did in Eastern Europe. He has commissioned translation into Arabic and publication of works by Frederic Bastiat , F. A. Hayek , James Madison , and other thinkers admired by modern libertarians, and has published essays in Arabic on such topics as "Challenges of Democratization" and "Religion and the Law."[http://www.cato.org/pubs/catosletter/catosletterv3n3.pdf] In April 2005 Palmer addressed members of the Iraqi parliament in the parliamentary assembly hall on constitutionalism.[http://www.cato.org/pubs/democracy_iraq_english.ppt]. He has also promoted the creation of a libertarian web site in Arabic where a number of additional translations are being published and started an Arabic publishing venture. His efforts to spread libertarian ideas in the Arab world have been applauded by some [http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/thinktanktown/2005/09/report_from_the.html and criticized by others [http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5936]. WORKS Palmer has published essays on the philosophy of individual rights (e.g., in this essay from ''Individual Rights Reconsidered'', edited by and Stephen Holmes and essays on multicultural politics[http://www.tomgpalmer.com/papers/madison-and-multiculturalism.pdf , on globalization on globalization and personal[http://www.tomgpalmer.com/papers/palmer-globcosmoidentity.pdf and cultural identity and on libertarian political philosophy[http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/cpr-18n5-1.html [http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v22n4/crosshairs.pdf][http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v24n2/after911.pdf][http://www.tomgpalmer.com/papers/palmer-whatsnotwrong-cr-v12n3.pdf][http://www.reason.com/0501/cr.tp.john.shtml]. Palmer also published an extensive bibliographical essay on libertarianism[http://www.theihs.org/pdf/subcategories/90.pdf]in ''The Libertarian Reader'', ed. by David Boaz. He has published law review articles[http://www.tomgpalmer.com/papers/palmer-morallyjustified-harvard-v13n3.pdf][http://www.tomgpalmer.com/papers/palmer-non-posnerian-hamline-v12n2.pdf] on intellectual property that have garnered substantial attention within the legal and technological community for his general critique of patents and copyrights and his suggestions of contractual and technological solutions to the problems for which intellectual property rights are usually proposed as solutions. Palmer also currently publishes a popular for carrying columns by controversial figures including Joe Sobran , Gary North , and Sam Francis . POLITICAL ACTIVITIES Palmer's political activities include being founding member and national secretary of the Committee Against Registration and the Draft (1979-81), president of the Oxford Civil Liberties Society (1993-94), and manager or communications director for several political campaigns. Palmer is a member of the board of trustees of the Foundation For Economic Education (created in 1946 by Leonard E. Read), a member of the Mont Pelerin Society , and a Freeman of the City Of London . EXTERNAL LINKS About Palmer
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