Ilya Shapiro is the director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute. Before joining Cato, he was a special assistant/adviser to the Multi-National Force in Iraq on rule-of-law issues and practiced at Patton Boggs and Cleary Gottlieb.
Shapiro is the co-author of Religious Liberties for Corporations? Hobby Lobby, the Affordable Care Act, and the Constitution (2014), and editor of 11 volumes of the Cato Supreme Court Review (2008-18). He has contributed to a variety of academic, popular, and professional publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, National Review, and New York Times Online. He also regularly provides commentary for various media outlets, including CNN, Fox News, ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision and Telemundo, the Colbert Report, PBS NewsHour, and NPR.
Shapiro has testified before Congress and state legislatures and has filed more than 300 amicus curiae “friend of the court” briefs in the Supreme Court, including one that The Green Bag selected for its “Exemplary Legal Writing” collection. He lectures regularly on behalf of the Federalist Society, was an inaugural Washington Fellow at the National Review Institute and a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute, and has been an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School. He is also the chairman of the board of advisors of the Mississippi Justice Institute, and a member of the Virginia Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. In 2015, National Law Journal named him to its 40 under 40 list of “rising stars.”
Before entering private practice, Shapiro clerked for Judge E. Grady Jolly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He holds an AB from Princeton University, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School (where he became a Tony Patiño Fellow).
SCOTUS Round-up
Chicago Lawyers Chapter
Book Review: Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America’s Highest Court
Federalism and Separation of Powers Teleforum
Teleforum
The Supreme Court This October Term, November Election, and Beyond
Nashville Lawyers Chapter - Online Event
Online Event
The Supreme Court This October Term, November Election, and Beyond
Columbia Lawyers Chapter Event
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The Cost of Free Speech at Princeton
Princeton Student Chapter
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Supreme Court Round-Up with Ilya Shapiro
Pittsburgh Lawyers Chapter Event
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Courthouse Steps Oral Argument: Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
In Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Supreme Court will decide the...
Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - Post-Argument SCOTUScast
featuring Ilya Shapiro
In Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the Supreme Court will decide...
Panel 3: The Anti-Federalists and the Court
2020 Annual Western Chapters Conference
On January 25, 2020, the Federalist Society hosted its annual Western Chapters Conference at the...
Panel 3: The Anti-Federalists and the Court
2020 Annual Western Chapters Conference
On January 25, 2020, the Federalist Society hosted its annual Western Chapters Conference at the...
Horizontal Federalism: May States Project their Sovereignty Beyond Their Borders?
2019 National Lawyers Convention
On November 14, 2019, the Federalist Society's Federalism & Separation of Powers Practice Group hosted...