Liberty Summer Seminar (2001-2018)

The Outdoor Event That Started It All

A speaker addresses an audience from a podium

An outdoor event like no other

Liberty Summer Seminar was an outdoor event designed as a full day of casual lectures, seminars, and discussions on the social, political, and economic foundations of a free society, and key elements of the classical liberal tradition.

The Liberty Summer Seminar schedule included

Casual lectures

Informal discussion opportunities

Liberty Summer Seminar was for

Students

Professors

Advocates for a free society

Notable past guest lecturers included

Michael
Walker

Lawrence
Reed

Tom
Palmer

John
Tomasi

Lawrence
White

Michael
Munger

Brian Lee
Crowley

Michel-Kelly
Gagnon

Greg
Lukianoff

Some Liberty Summer Seminar history

The first LSS was in 2001

LSS is the founding event that grew into the ILS in 2006

The event was held on the property of ILS co-founder Peter Jaworski's family from 2001-2013

The state tried to shut down LSS!