Supreme Court Preview

The New York City Young Lawyers Chapter

Speaker:

• Ilya Shapiro, Cato Institute, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studiese and Editor-in-Chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review

Speaker:

• Ilya Shapiro, Cato Institute, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studiese and Editor-in-Chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review

Before joining Cato, Shapiro was a special assistant/adviser to the Multi-National Force in Iraq on rule-of-law issues and practiced international, political, commercial, and antitrust litigation at Patton Boggs and Cleary Gottlieb.

Shapiro has contributed to a variety of academic, popular, and professional publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today,National Law Journal, the Weekly Standard, the New York Times Online, and the National Review Online. He also regularly provides commentary for various media outlets, including CNN, Fox News, ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision and Telemundo, The Colbert Report, NPR, and American Public Media’s Marketplace.

Shapiro has provided testimony to Congress and state legislatures and, as coordinator of Cato’s amicus brief program, filed more than 100 “friend of the court” briefs in the Supreme Court. He lectures regularly on behalf of the Federalist Society and other groups, is a member of the Legal Studies Institute’s board of visitors at The Fund for American Studies, was an inaugural Washington Fellow at the National Review Institute, and has been an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School.

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). Shapiro is a member of the bars of New York, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Event is free, but space is limited. Please RSVP online so we can have a proper headcount. 

Drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served.