Debunking the Myth: Why the Big-Government Model is Bad for the Poor and Working American?

Patrick Garry
Patrick Garry

Professor Patrick Garry, University of South Dakota College of Law
Tuesday, November 11
12:00 - 1:00pm
Hamann Auditorium

Professor Garry focuses on traditional arguments that big government programs favor the poor and are opposed by the more wealthy segments of society. He then examines these arguments in light of the facts showing that a limited government approach can better represent and fulfill the needs of the poor and working American.

The areas of law will be constitutional and regulatory.

The event has been approved for 1 hour of CLE. Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP. Please RSVP to lylewheeler1986@gmail.com no later than Thursday, November 6th.

Professor Garry has a J.D. and Ph.D. in legal and constitutional history. He teaches in the areas of administrative law, media and communications law, advanced torts, and employment law. He has published over 100 articles, which have appeared in such journals as Wake Forest Law Review, Florida Law Review, Alabama Law Review, SMU Law Review, Utah Law Review, University of Kentucky Law Review, and Arizona State Law Journal. He has also been an invited contributor to The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court, the Encyclopedia of the First Amendment, the First Amendment Law Handbook, the Cato Supreme Court Review, The Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States, The Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment, and the Oxford Companion to U.S. History.

Professor Garry’s published books include The American Vision of a Free Press (chosen for inclusion in “Distinguished Studies in American Legal and Constitutional History”), Limited Government and the Bill of Rights, An Entrenched Legacy: How the New Deal Constitutional Revolution Continues to Shape the Role of the Court (finalist for the Henry Paolucci/Walter Bagehot Book Award), Wrestling With God: The Court’s Tortuous Treatment of Religion, and Scrambling For Protection: The New Media and the First Amendment.

Garry is an editorial reviewer for several academic journals and book publishers. He is a recipient of the USD President’s Research Excellence Award for both Mid-Career Faculty and Established Faculty. Various of his articles have been reprinted in other collected works volumes and scholarly treatises. And he has been an invited visiting scholar at George Washington University Law School, the University of Utah Law School, and the University of Missouri Law School.

In addition to his academic and scholarly books, Garry has published numerous popular-audience books, which have been awarded more than thirty book awards and prizes.