 Info For Journalists
Responses to Our Critics
Evaluations of FREE’s Programs
Below you'll find evaluations of our programs
by federal judges and law professors. In addition, we've posted
materials responding to the perennial attacks on our programs from
the Community Rights Counsel.
| [FREE’s program] was of the highest
intellectual quality of any seminar I have attended since going
on the bench almost 22 years ago…. It may never help me
decide a specific case, but it will broaden the minds of all
those that heard it, and that’s more important. |
Honorable Richard S. Arnold
United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit |
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| ... FREE’s seminars have given
me an unparalleled opportunity to look outward. It is no exaggeration
to say that they have helped me keep alive my research agenda.... |
Professor Colin Crawford
Georgia State University College of Law
Atlanta, Georgia |
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| In a word, my evaluation is “fantastic.” The
speakers and participants were drawn from backgrounds that
were highly diverse, not only in background and profession,
but also in philosophy, giving a tremendous dynamic dimension
to the presentations and discussion. |
The Honorable
Frederic N. Smalkin
Chief
Judge (ret.)
United States District Court, District of Maryland |
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| I attended my first FREE seminar, "Terrorism,
Energy Security, and Civil Liberties." I found it a very worthwhile
experience and intend to recommend this seminar and others
sponsored by FREE to my colleagues.... The presentations were
well done.... The format...fostered the kind of mutual learning
through frank exchange that is very useful to judges who read,
hear, and analyze conflicting positions in every case that
comes before us. |
The Honorable Judith M. Barzilay
United States Court of International Trade |
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| I recently...participated in a program, "Globalization and the Environment:
Common Property Resource Problems," organized by the Foundation for Research
on Economics and the Environment.... My expectations were high, and they were
exceeded. |
Professor Robert N. Stavins
Director, Environmental Economics Program
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Member, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
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| In my twenty years on various federal courts, I have been to a lot of seminars...and
I have no hesitancy in saying that the education offered by FREE is superior
to most if not all of them. The quality of the speakers and the timeliness and
importance of the seminar topics is second to none. |
The Honorable Alice M. Batchelder
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit |
Responses to Our Critics
John A. Baden and Pete Geddes, "Free to Learn," Legal Times, Vol. XXIX, No. 12, March 20, 2006
Dr. Scott Barrett, Dr. Lester Lave, Dr. Wallace Oates, and Dr. Paul Portney, letter to John Baden summarizing findings of review of FREE's programs, October 30, 2005
Professors J.B. Ruhl and Peter Appel, letter to the Hon. Gordon J. Quist, Chairman of the Judicial Conference's Committee on Codes of Conduct, July 21, 2005
“Free to Be FREE,” The Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2005
Hon. James B. Loken, ruling on ethics complaint by Community Rights Counsel against Hon. Danny Boggs, May 23, 2005
Jeffrey Lord, "Rigging the Borking Game," National Review Online, May 19, 2005
"FREE No More," The Wall Street Journal, May 17, 2005
Thomas Schelling, "Allegations Against FREE Are Groundless," Bozeman Daily Chronicle, May 11, 2005, p. A4
Alan Bersin and Sherry S. Matteucci, former U.S. Attorneys under President Clinton, "Review of FREE's Seminar Program for Judges and Law Professors," February 2005
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Press Release: ruling on the CRC's ethics complaint
Gregg Easterbrook, "Phony Indignation #2," Easterblogg, March 24, 2004
Robert Cindrich,
former U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania, correspondence
of February 24, 2004
Hon. A. Raymond Randolph, "Private
Judicial Seminars: A Reply to Abner Mikva," Litigation, vol.
29, no. 1, Fall 2002, pp. 3-6
Professors Philip Brick,
Gus diZerega, and Donald Snow, Whitman College, correspondence of February
13, 2002
Hank
Fischer, former Northern Rockies Director of Defenders of Wildlife,
correspondence of February 11, 2002
Bruce A. Green, "Judicial Independence: May Judges Attend Privately Funded Educational Programs? Should Judicial Education Be Privatized?: Questions Of Judicial Ethics And Policy," 29 Fordham Urban Law Journal 941, February 2002.
In Re: Maria Aguinda and Gabriel Ashanga Jota, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 241 F.3d 194, 2001
Bruce A. Green, "Ethics of Judicial Education: An Analysis of Private Charitable Gifts for Judicial Learning," October 15, 1999.
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