Ilya Shapiro
Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies, Cato InstituteIlya Shapiro is a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the <a href="http://www.cato.org/">Cato Institute</a> and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. Before joining Cato, he was Special Assistant/Advisor to the Multi-National Force-Iraq on rule of law issues and practiced international, political, commercial, and antitrust litigation at Patton Boggs LLP and Cleary Gottlieb LLP. <br /> <br /> Shapiro has contributed to a variety of academic, popular, and professional publications, including the L.A. Times, Washington Times, Weekly Standard, Roll Call, National Review Online, and from 2004 to 2007 wrote the "Dispatches from Purple America" column for TCS Daily.com. He also regularly provides commentary on a host of legal and political issues for various TV and radio outlets, including Fox News, CBS, WGN, Voice of America, and American Public Media's "Marketplace." <br /> <br /> He is also an adjunct professor at The George Washington University Law School and lectures regularly on behalf of the Federalist Society, The Fund for American Studies, and other educational and professional groups. Before entering private practice, Shapiro clerked for Judge E. Grady Jolly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, while living in Mississippi and traveling around the Deep South. He holds an A.B. from Princeton University, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School (where he became a Tony Patiño Fellow). Shapiro is a native speaker of English and Russian, is fluent in Spanish and French, and is proficient in Italian and Portuguese.
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Yes, Ted Cruz can be president
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Immigration parole, not amnesty
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The beginning of the end of the gay marriage debate?
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Four months later, I’m still not over the Obamacare ruling
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Obamacare's second day at the court features brilliant advocacy, cautious optimism
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Obamacare's first day at the Supreme Court: The calm before the storm
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Obama's top 10 constitutional violations
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Supreme Court protects gun rights, fails to restore greater freedom
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Dispatches from Vancouver, Vol. VI: Requiem for a games
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Dispatches from Vancouver, Vol. V: A tale of two hockeys
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Dispatches from Vancouver, Vol. IV: Bringing sexy back from where the wild things are
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Dispatches from Vancouver, Vol. III: Da da Latvija, nyet nyet Soviet
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Dispatches from Vancouver, Vol. II: First impressions
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A myth of Olympic proportions