About this Event
What does a libertarian approach to tech policy look like in 2025? With critics from both the Left and the Right calling for tech regulation, it is important to remember that a light touch approach has been critical to allowing the American tech sector to flourish and brought with it not only incredible economic opportunities but benefits and tools consumers might never have dreamed of. Topics to be explored include free speech online, antitrust, and AI.
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Jennifer Huddleston is a senior fellow in technology policy at the Cato Institute. Her research focuses on the intersection of emerging technology and law with a particular interest in the interactions between technology and the administrative state. Huddleston’s work covers topics including antitrust, online content moderation, data privacy, and the benefits of technology and innovation. Her work has appeared in USA Today, National Review, the Chicago Tribune, Slate, RealClearPolicy, and U.S. News and World Report. She has published in law journals including the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, George Mason Law Review, Oklahoma Law Review, and Colorado Technology Law Journal. Huddleston has a JD from the University of Alabama School of Law and a BA in political science from Wellesley College.
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Please join the Mont Hamilton Society in this 16th year since our founding, to hear and interact with Jennifer Huddleston on this important topic that concerns us all.
This meeting will be in-person for no more than 20 individuals only, including lunch. We think you will enjoy the intellectual stimulation, the edification, the camaraderie, and meeting new people.
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About the Mont Hamilton Society - In 1947 Friedrich Hayek, an economist and social philosopher who later won the Nobel Prize, organized a meeting at Mt. Pelerin, a resort in Switzerland. Hayek convened a modest sized group of (39) economists, historians, philosophers and journalists for the purpose of supporting research and discussion on the role of markets vs. government. The Mont Pelerin Society is now a large and prestigious international organization.
In 2009, a group of friends began to meet in San Jose for the purposes of improving their understanding of economic theory, applying it to current events and sharing their understanding with others as well as promoting a joyous sense of camaraderie. In recognition of the example set by the Mont Pelerin Society, they decided to name their group the Mont Hamilton Society. Members understand the realities of the business world, share an interest in economic thinking, and value civil discourse from a variety of perspectives. Faculty and students from the Department of Economics at San Jose State University are frequent guests at Society meetings. In June 2017 the Mont Hamilton Society became the San Jose affiliate chapter of the Bastiat Society, an AIER.org project, hence our name from then till late last year was: Mont Hamilton/Bastiat Society. However AIER decided late in 2024 to discontinue the Bastiat Society program, so we are reverting to our original name: The Mont Hamilton Society and continuing on our own.
There are no membership fees or organizational meetings at this time, but all interested are encouraged to join and participate.
If you would like to be on our invitations list, or know someone else who might like to receive notice of our 7 - 10 (or more - during pre-covid years) luncheons or other events per year, or if you have any questions, please send an email to:
You or your suggested contact(s) will receive an announcement/invitation and a reminder or two for each event as they are scheduled, or a prompt answer to your question/s.
These events are discussions, not standard lectures. To facilitate this, the in-person gatherings before Covid Lockdowns were kept "small," typically 12 - 24 individuals only. Some presentations are video recorded, depending on demand. Constructive feedback on our events and interest in recordings is welcome, since we are continuing to evolve our meeting formats.
Thank you for your interest.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Scott's Seafood (90 min. free parking: 93 East San Carlos, NE corner at 2nd), 200 South 1st Street, San Jose, United States
USD 55.20
