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Matthew P. Cavedon

Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute

Topics:	Civil Rights • Criminal Law & Procedure • Culture • First Amendment • Founding Era & History • Fourteenth Amendment • Fourth Amendment • Jurisprudence • Philosophy • Politics • Religious Liberty • Second Amendment • Separation of Powers • State Courts • State Governments • Federalism & Separation of Powers • Free Speech & Election Law • Religious Liberties • Originally Speaking • State Constitutions • State Court Docket Watch

Topics:

Civil Rights • Criminal Law & Procedure • Culture • First Amendment • Founding Era & History • Fourteenth Amendment • Fourth Amendment • Jurisprudence • Philosophy • Politics • Religious Liberty • Second Amendment • Separation of Powers • State Courts • State Governments • Federalism & Separation of Powers • Free Speech & Election Law • Religious Liberties • Originally Speaking • State Constitutions • State Court Docket Watch

Matthew Cavedon is the Director of the Cato Institute’s Project on Criminal Justice. He focuses on reforming plea-driven mass adjudication, ensuring police accountability, and defending constitutional criminal originalism. Cavedon’s scholarship has been published (or is forthcoming in) publications including the Arizona State Law Journal, Cato Supreme Court Review, Seattle University Law Review, and Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy. Formerly a Georgia public defender and fellow at the Institute for Justice, Cavedon has taught law school courses on criminal law and procedure, as well as the First Amendment. Cavedon clerked for a U.S. district court and the Supreme Court of Georgia. He came to Cato following a fellowship at the Emory University Center for the Study of Law and Religion.

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