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Gorton Summer Series 2007

Discovery Institute is pleased to announce our third annual summer lecture series for interns and young professionals. The ‘Gorton Summer Lecture Series’ named for our distinguished board member and former U.S. Senator Slade Gorton, introduces young people to the nature and ideals of public service. Read More ›

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Adoption Principles

On both sides of the Atlantic, the argument is being made that the only way to find enough families for children in need of homes is to allow cohabiting persons who are unmarried — whether heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered — to adopt. At first, the heightened attention by the media on gay and lesbian adoption was spurred in Read More ›

Internet Law Task Force Organizing to Achieve Consensus on Internet Legal Issues

OCTOBER 31, 1995 — Seattle,WA — The first international conference on the law of the Internet served as the platform for the announcement of an effort to establish the Internet Law Task Force (ILTF) to facilitate the progressive development of law and public policy in the global information age. The ILTF will provide an international forum for issues related to the use and growth of the Internet including: evolution of the business practices and legal instruments to assure the validity and acceptance of digital transactions; property rights; privacy; and the elimination of legal barriers to Internet commerce and electronic transactions. “We need to accelerate at the global level the development of solutions borne of consensus,” stated Peter Harter, former executive director and general Read More ›