Anastasia Boden is the Director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute.
Before joining the Cato Institute, Anastasia was a civil rights attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, where she led the organization’s equality and opportunity program. She also co‐created the podcast, Dissed, which tells the stories behind infamous Supreme Court dissents.
In her decade before joining Cato, Anastasia represented entrepreneurs in challenges to onerous occupational licensing laws, anti‐competitive titling restrictions, and Certificate of Need (CON) programs. She developed nearly a dozen cases challenging CON laws across the country, leading to legislative reform in Montana, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Among her other wins are a case invalidating busking restrictions in Houston, several appellate decisions opening up the courthouse doors to civil rights plaintiffs, and legislative repeal of Virginia’s happy hour advertising restrictions.
Her writings on law and liberty have been featured in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Forbes, and more, and she has appeared on Headline News, Reason TV, Newsmax, and John Stossel.
Anastasia earned her B.A. with Dean’s Honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was research assistant to Professor Randy E. Barnett—the intellectual “Godfather” of the constitutional challenge to Obamacare.
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Supreme Court Roundup
California-Berkeley Student Chapter
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law225 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA 94720
Supreme Court Roundup and Cocktail Reception
Sacramento Lawyers Chapter, America's Future, and Pacific Legal Foundation
Cafeteria 15L1116 15th Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
Dissed: The Best Dissents of the Term
Colorado Lawyers Chapter
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery1001 16th St. Mall, A-100
Denver, CO 80265
The Constitutional Right to Earn a Living
Florida International Student Chapter
FIU College of LawRafael Diaz-Balart Hall, 11200 SW 8th Street
Miami, FL 33199
A Seat at the Sitting - April 2023
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