AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest
The National Legal Center for the Public Interest was a U.S. legal policy foundation with a membership of many prominent conservative lawyers. Fred Fielding was the most recent chairman of the foundation. Other prominent members included Theodore Olson, Judge Kenneth Starr, and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.
Despite it's name, its primary focus was on the corporate sector. According to a 1990 New York Times article, "This is a group that has taken the famous dictum of Charles E. Wilson one step further. It is no longer only what's good for General Motors that is good for America, but what's good for Dow Chemical, Amway, Shell Oil, 3M and others represented on the legal center's board of directors."[1]
It's annual report would reference conservatives active in the group like William Reynolds, Robert H. Bork, and Bruce Fein. It also ran a "Federal judge identification program" that sought "to identify those who believe that the appropriate role of the judiciary is to interpret the law, not make it." It wrote papers on the "hidden costs" of affirmative action and on the "impossibilities" of the Americans With Disabilities Act.
In September 2007, the NLC was merged into the conservative American Enterprise Institute to become the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest, directed by AEI resident fellow Ted Frank.[2] AEI's existing legal and constitutional studies program, Federalism Project, and Liability Project were subsumed into the AEI Legal Center.
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References
- ^ When the Public Interest Becomes the Interest of The Corporate World, David Margolick, The New York Times, September 21, 1990.
- ^ "AEI and National Legal Center for the Public Interest Establish New Research Center on Legal and Constitutional Issues" (Press release). American Enterprise Institute. 2007-09-04. Retrieved 2007-11-07.
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