Clark Neily is vice president for criminal justice at the Cato Institute. His areas of interest include constitutional law, overcriminalization, civil forfeiture, police accountability, and gun rights. Neily is the author of Terms of Engagement: How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution’s Promise of Limited Government. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and National Review Online, as well as various law reviews, including the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, George Mason Law Review, Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, NYU Journal of Law and Liberty, and Texas Review of Law and Politics. Neily is a frequent guest speaker and lecturer for the Federalist Society, Institute for Humane Studies, and American Constitution Society.
Before joining Cato in 2017, Neily was a senior attorney and constitutional litigator at the Institute for Justice and director of the Institute’s Center for Judicial Engagement. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas School of Law, where he teaches constitutional litigation and public-interest law.
Neily served as co-counsel in District of Columbia v. Heller, the historic case in which the Supreme Court held for the first time that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own a gun for self-defense.
Neily began his legal career as a law clerk to Judge Royce Lamberth on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. After that he spent four years in the trial department of the Dallas-based firm Thompson & Knight. Neily received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Texas, where he was Chief Articles Editor of the Texas Law Review.
Clash of the Titans: General Michael Flynn & Judge Emmett Sullivan - Does the DOJ have Unfettered Discretion to Dismiss the Flynn Prosecution?
Miami Lawyers Chapter - Online Event
Online Event
Ex-Prosecutors And The Federal Judiciary
Professional Responsibilities & Legal Education Practice Group Teleforum
Teleforum
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CANCELLED: Qualified Immunity
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Clash of the Titans: General Michael Flynn & Judge Emmett Sullivan - Does the DOJ have Unfettered Discretion to Dismiss the Flynn Prosecution?
Miami Lawyers Chapter - Online Event
On June 4, 2020, the Miami Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society hosted an online...
Clash of the Titans: General Michael Flynn & Judge Emmett Sullivan - Does the DOJ have Unfettered Discretion to Dismiss the Flynn Prosecution?
Miami Lawyers Chapter - Online Event
On June 4, 2020, the Miami Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society hosted an online...
Is There a "Police Power" Exception to the Fifth Amendment's Just Compensation Clause?
Police in Greenwood Village, CO, chased a shoplifting suspect into a home belonging to Leo...
Ex-Prosecutors And The Federal Judiciary
Professional Responsibilities & Legal Education Practice Group Teleforum
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Judicial Engagement and Rational Basis Review
Is rational basis review the appropriate approach consistent with constitutional text, history, and good public...