Public Speaking

Thorne was an invited speaker at the national family law reform conference “Healing Our Families - A Time for Change” hosted by the Family Rights Coalition of Michigan on 17-18 June 2005 at the Metro Detroit Airport Marriott Hotel in Detroit, Michigan.

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 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 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Virginia.

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” conducted 3-5 November2006 at the Sheraton Crystal City Hotel in Arlington, Virginia.

On 6 November 2008 Thorne presented a one-hour lecture to graduate students at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. His presentation was entitled: “Beginning to Tell the Untold Story: How Fraud in America’s Family Courts Affects You”.  Both the lecture and the following question and answer session were video-taped for later television and Internet broadcast.

Thorne’s lecture 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.