Roger Pilon is the Cato’s Institute’s vice president for legal affairs, the founding director of Cato’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, the inaugural holder of Cato’s B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies, and the founding publisher of the Cato Supreme Court Review.
Prior to joining Cato, Pilon held five senior posts in the Reagan administration, including at State and Justice, and was a national fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. In 1989 the Bicentennial Commission presented him with its Benjamin Franklin Award for excellence in writing on the U.S. Constitution. In 2001 Columbia University’s School of General Studies awarded him its Alumni Medal of Distinction. Pilon lectures and debates at universities and law schools across the country and testifies often before Congress.
His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Legal Times, National Law Journal, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Stanford Law and Policy Review, and elsewhere. He has appeared on ABC’s Nightline, CBS’s 60 Minutes II, Fox News Channel, NPR, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, C-SPAN, and other media.
Pilon holds a BA from Columbia University, an MA and a PhD from the University of Chicago, and a JD from the George Washington University School of Law.
Panel 1: The Anti-Federalists at the Founding
2020 Annual Western Chapters Conference
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library40 Presidential Dr
Simi Valley, CA 93065
Is Affirmative Action Consistent with the Equal Protection of the Law?
Illinois Student Chapter
University of Illinois College of Law504 E Pennsylvania Ave
Champaign, IL 61820
Should Judges Secure Unenumerated Rights? From Lochner to Lawrence
Kentucky Student Chapter
Sanders Hall629 S Limestone
Lexington, KY 40508
Should Judges Secure Unenumerated Rights?: From Lochner to Lawrence
Louisville Student Chapter
The University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law2301 S 3rd St
Louisville, KY 40208
Why Can't the Court Get the Fourteenth Amendment Right?
Chicago Student Chapter
University of Chicago Law School1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Panel I: Methods of Interpreting the Economic Rights Provisions of the Constitution [Archive Collection]
A Symposium in Celebration of the Bicentennial of the Constitution
On October 16-17, 1987, the Federalist Society hosted a symposium in celebration of the bicentennial...
Panel I: Methods of Interpreting the Economic Rights Provisions of the Constitution [Archive Collection]
A Symposium in Celebration of the Bicentennial of the Constitution
On October 16-17, 1987, the Federalist Society hosted a symposium in celebration of the bicentennial...
Panel 1: The Anti-Federalists at the Founding
2020 Annual Western Chapters Conference
On January 25, 2020, the Federalist Society hosted its annual Western Chapters Conference at the...
Panel 1: The Anti-Federalists at the Founding
2020 Annual Western Chapters Conference
On January 25, 2020, the Federalist Society hosted its annual Western Chapters Conference at the...
Stare Decisis: What Is Stare Decisis? [No. 86]
Short video featuring Roger Pilon
The Latin term “stare decisis” may be translated literally as “to stand by decided matters.”...