FORA.tv Speaker - Philip K. Howard

Philip K Howard chairs Common Good, a national bipartisan coalition organized to restore common sense to American law, and is a well-known leader of legal reform in America. He is the author of many books about the consequences of the legal system including The Collapse of Common Good: How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our Freedom and The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America. Phillip contributes occasionally to the op-ed pages of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, and speaks before judicial, government and professional organizations around the country. Philip earned his law degree from the University of Virginia, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and a member of the editorial board of the Virginia Law Review.