National Elections Focus of Benedictine's Next Sesquicentennial Lecture
Just four days before the presidential election, Bradley Smith, one of the nation's leading authorities on election law and campaign finance, will give a presentation at Benedictine College. Beginning at 11 a.m. this Friday, Oct. 31, in the O'Malley-McAllister Auditorium, Smith will discuss "The Price of Democracy: The Role of Money in the 2008 Presidential Election" as part of the College's Sesquicentennial Speaker Series.
(Media-Newswire.com) - Just four days before the presidential election, Bradley Smith, one of the nation’s leading authorities on election law and campaign finance, will give a presentation at Benedictine College. Beginning at 11 a.m. this Friday, Oct. 31, in the O’Malley-McAllister Auditorium, Smith will discuss “The Price of Democracy: The Role of Money in the 2008 Presidential Election” as part of the College’s Sesquicentennial Speaker Series. The event is free and open to the public.
Smith is former chairman of the Federal Election Commission and is a leader in the national discussion of campaign finance issues. He has been called “the most sought after witness” when Congress considers campaign finance issues. His writings have appeared in leading law journals across the country, including the Yale Law Journal, Georgetown Law Journal, the Harvard Journal of Legislation, Stanford Journal of Law & Policy, and the Pennsylvania Law Review, and in popular publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and National Review.
His 2001 book, “Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform” ( Princeton University Press ), was praised by columnist George F. Will as “the year’s most important book on governance.” The Times of London called it “a much needed dose of realism which has relevance far beyond America,” and Publishers Weekly described it as “a marvelous contrarian view: moderate in tone, elegant in language, clever in argument.”
A frequent guest lecturer, Smith has spoken at more than 30 of the nation’s law schools, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, Chicago, Michigan and New York University. His many national media credits include appearances on such programs as Hardball, Hannity & Colmes, NPR’s All Things Considered, Bill Moyers, the O’Reilly Factor, and all major network news broadcasts. He also has appeared on radio or television in Canada, Great Britain and Japan. Professor Smith has represented the Inter-American Institute for Human Rights as an election observer overseas, and addressed election officials from developing democracies on behalf of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems and the International Republican Institute.
Since August of 2005 he has served as Professor of Law at Capital University Law School, and also is Of Counsel with the Columbus, Ohio and Washington D.C. offices of the law firm of Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease. He has also taught law at George Mason University in Virginia, and in 2007 was a Visiting Fellow at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University.
Prior to attending law school, Smith served as United States Vice Consul in Ecuador. He is a cum laude graduate of both Harvard Law School and Kalamazoo College, and the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Augustana College. He lives with his wife ( a professional dog trainer ), and their two daughters, three dogs, and three horses in the historic village of Granville, Ohio, where they are restoring the 1883 George McKibben House.
Benedictine College is in the midst of a year-long celebration of its 150th anniversary that includes this lecture series. Other speakers in the series include Sean Flynn, Ph.D., of Credit Suisse-NY, coming November 13; Dayton Moore, general manager of the Kansas City Royals, coming November 14; Christopher Vath, renowned pianist and composer, coming on November 19; and a joint presentation with Don Soderquist, former vice-chairman of Wal-Mart, and Sulaiman Al Fahim, CEO of Hydra Properties-Dubai, coming November 21. The college traces its roots in the area to 1858 and has a mission to educate men and women within a community of faith and scholarship.
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