As senior Fellow and director of Legal Policy at the Manhattan institute, James Copland develops and communicates novel, sound ideas on how to improve America’s civil- and criminal-justice systems. He has testified before Congress as well as state and municipal legislatures; and has authored many policy briefs, book chapters, articles and opinion pieces in a variety of publications, including the Harvard Business Law Review and Yale Journal on Regulation, the Wall Street Journal, National Law Journal, and USA Today. Copland speaks regularly on civil- and criminal-justice issues; has made hundreds of media appearances in such outlets as PBS, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg, C-Span, and NPR; and is frequently cited in news articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, The Economist, and Forbes. In 2011 and 2012, he was named to the National Association of Corporate Directors “Directorship 100” list, which designates the individuals most influential over U.S. corporate governance. Prior to joining MI, Copland was a management consultant with McKinsey and Company in New York. Earlier, he was a law clerk for Ralph K. Winter on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Copland has been a director of two privately held manufacturing companies since 1997 and has served on many public and nonprofit boards. He holds a J.D. and an M.B.A. from Yale, where he was an Olin Fellow in Law and Economics; an M.Sc. in the politics of the world economy from the London School of Economics; and a B.A. in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar.
He spoke to the CEC on April 20th, 2016 on the topic of, “You’re Probably Guilty of Something…”
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Competitive Enterprise Institute. His public policy research has covered a wide range of topics, including regulatory reform, free market environmentalism, antitrust law, and international finance and comparative economics. He spoke to the CEC on February 3rd, 2016 about “The Political Economy of Doer/Thinker Alliances”.
University spoke to the CEC on July 15th at the Palmetto Club. She spoke about pop culture and various movies which have helped spread economic understanding and “Rockonomix”, a national program that spreads interest in economics through parodies posted to YouTube.
, April 27th, Nikolai G. Wenzel joined the CEC for lunch at the Palmetto Club. Dr. Wenzel talked on his topic “Caffeine, Evil Leprechauns, & Interest Rates: The Regulatory & Monetary Roots of the Financial Crisis of 2007.”
joined the CEC for lunch at The Palmetto Club on September 30th, 2014 to speak about “The Political Consequences of Islam’s Economic Legacy”. Dr. Kuran is a professor of Economics and Political Science & Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University.
