Ilya Shapiro is a vice president of the Cato Institute, director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, and publisher of the Cato Supreme Court Review. 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 author of Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America’s Highest Court (2020), coauthor 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, the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, National Review, and Newsweek. He also regularly provides commentary for various media outlets, is a legal consultant to CBS News, and once appeared on the Colbert Report.
Shapiro has testified before Congress and state legislatures and has filed more than 400 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 law professor at the George Washington University and University of Mississippi. He is also the chairman of the board of advisers of the Mississippi Justice Institute, a barrister in the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court, 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).
Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America’s Highest Court
St. Mary's Student Chapter
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Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America’s Highest Court
An Evening with Ilya Shapiro
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Mineola, NY 11501
Supreme Court Reform: Yes or No?
St. Thomas-FL Student Chapter
St. Thomas University of Law16401 NW 37th Ave FL
Miami Gardens, FL 33054
Supreme Court Reform
Mississippi Student Chapter
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University, MS 38677
A Discussion on Judicial Appointments
Memphis Student Chapter
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Memphis, TN 38103
NYC Young Lawyers: Supreme Court Preview
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New York, NY 10019
Is Per Se Takings Analysis Per Se Better?
Yale Student Chapter
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New Haven, CT 06511
What the Heller? The Supreme Court's Role in Fleshing Out the Second Amendment
Albany Student Chapter
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Albany, NY 12208
The Merits of Bruen
John Marshall-Chicago Student Chapter
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Chicago, IL 60604
Courthouse Steps Decision Webinar: Nestle USA, Inc. v. Doe et al
International & National Security Law and Litigation Practice Groups Teleforum
On June 17, 2021, the Supreme Court issued its 8-1 decision in Nestle USA, Inc. v....
Courthouse Steps Decision Webinar: Nestle USA, Inc. v. Doe et al
International & National Security Law and Litigation Practice Groups Teleforum
On June 17, 2021, the Supreme Court issued its 8-1 decision in Nestle USA, Inc. v....
The CDC’s Eviction Moratorium Is Unconstitutional
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State Sovereignty or Fair-Weather Federalism?
Federalism & Separation of Powers Practice Group
The last few administrations have seen an increasing willingness by states to challenge the executive...
COVID-19: Lockdowns and Other Restrictions on Individual Liberties
Puerto Rico Lawyers Chapter & the University of Puerto Rico Student Chapter
On February 8, 2021, the Federalist Society's Puerto Rico Lawyers Chapter and Puerto Rico Student...