Co-Sponsored by the Federalist Society

A panel discussion about some of the major policy and legal issues brought to the fore in a digital world.

Clark Niely

Clark Neily is a Senior Attorney at the Institute for Justice, which he joined in 2000.  He litigates economic liberty, property rights, school choice, First Amendment, and other constitutional cases in both federal and state 
courts. He served as counsel in a successful challenge to Nevada’s monopolistic limousine licensing practices and led IJ’s opposition to a nationwide effort to cartelize the interior design industry through anticompetitive licensing laws.  In his private capacity, Clark represented the plaintiffs in District of Columbia v. Heller, the historic case in which the Supreme Court announced for the first time that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own a gun for self-defense.

Josh Blackman

Josh Blackman is an Associate Professor of Law at the Houston College of Law who specializes in constitutional law, the United States Supreme Court, and the intersection of law and technology. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Unprecedented: The Constitutional Challenge to Obamacare. He was selected by Forbes for their “30 Under 30” in Law and Policy. 

Edward Egan

Edward J. Egan, Ph.D., is a fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute and director of the Baker Institute’s McNair Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He was previously an assistant professor of entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School, in London, England, and the innovation policy fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received his Ph.D. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.