ishapiro - Ilya Shapiro
Falls Church, VA
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Ilya Shapiro
Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute. Prior to this, he served as the vice president of the Cato Institute, where he founded and led the Cato Supreme Court Review, a yearly journal covering the U.S. Supreme Court's term. His tenure at Cato spanned from 2008 to 2022.
- Co-founder of the Federalist Society's Student Chapter at the University of Chicago Law School
- Adjunct Professor at the George Washington University Law School
- Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy (1996-1997)
Ilya has authored several books:
- Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America's Highest Court (2020)
- SCOTUS 2020: Major Decisions and Developments at the Supreme Court (2020)
- The People’s Courts: Pursuing Judicial Independence in America (2016)
His mission, in his own words, is to:
"Defend individual liberty, free markets, and limited government by promoting constitutionalism and the rule of law."
Notable accomplishments include:
- Frequent commentator on legal and constitutional issues in various media outlets
- Recipient of the Atlas Network's Templeton Freedom Award (2011)
