Public Speaking

Thorne is available for public speaking engagements related to family law reform and Constitutional issues faced by families in America.

The following is a partial listing of events Thorne has been an invited speaker.

On 6 November 2008 Thorne accepted an invitation to present a one-hour lecture to graduate students at Catholic University in Washington, D.C.. His presentation covered a short history of divorce law in the United States, adoption in the 1970’s of “no-fault” divorce statutes in most states, how child custody laws have evolved since then, how these legal “megatrends” have undermined respect for the Rule of Law and the U.S. Constitution, the scope of the Constitutional crisis in America’s family courts, and pragmatic solutions to resolve the most onerous of the Constitutional issues faced by parents and children. Both the lecture and question and answer session was video-taped for television and Internet broadcast.

On 3-5 November 2006 Thorne was an invited speaker at the 20th Annual Conference of the Children’s Rights Council entitled “Shared Parenting in the 21st Century - Exploring the Best Interests of Children."

On 15-17 September 2006 Thorne was an invited speaker at the National Family Law Reform Conference hosted by the American Coalition of Fathers and Children.

On 14 September 2006 Thorne attended the (invitation only) annual Symposium of the Institute for American Values in New York City, conducted at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. The focus was Family Law Reform, and speakers included the Honorable Leah Ward Sears, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the Honorable Jean Hoefer Toal, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina.

On 17-18 June 2005 Thorne was an invited speaker of the national family law reform conference “Healing Our Families – A Time for Change” hosted by the Family Rights Coalition of Michigan.