Brent Skorup

Legal Fellow, Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute

Topics:	Civil Rights • Constitution • Federalism • First Amendment • Founding Era & History • Fourth Amendment • Law & Economics • Property Law • Regulatory Transparency Project • Separation of Powers • Telecommunications & Electronic Media • Federalism & Separation of Powers • Free Speech & Election Law

Topics:

Civil Rights • Constitution • Federalism • First Amendment • Founding Era & History • Fourth Amendment • Law & Economics • Property Law • Regulatory Transparency Project • Separation of Powers • Telecommunications & Electronic Media • Federalism & Separation of Powers • Free Speech & Election Law

Brent Skorup is a legal fellow in the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies.

Before joining Cato, he was a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at the George Mason University. His research areas include free speech, technology law, Fourth Amendment protections, regulation, and property law. Skorup has published pieces in economics and law journals and in popular media, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg Law, Reuters, and Wired. He’s appeared as a TV and radio interview guest for news outlets like C‑SPAN, NPR, CBS News, ABC News, and CNBC Asia.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court, a dissenting opinion at the Illinois Supreme Court, and the ALI's Restatement of the Law of Property have cited his legal research and he has testified as a technology and legal expert in legislative hearings in several states. Skorup has been appointed to several federal and state advisory bodies and he is currently a member of the Texas Advanced Air Mobility Advisory Committee.

Skorup has a BA in economics from Wheaton College and a law degree from the George Mason University School of Law, where he was articles editor for the Civil Rights Law Journal. He was a legal clerk at the FCC’s wireless bureau and Office of General Counsel and at the Energy and Commerce Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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