Ilya Shapiro
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| Introduction | Ilya Shapiro is Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies and Editor-in-Chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review at the Cato Institute, the nation's leading libertarian think tank. In Summer 2007 he was in Baghdad as Special Assistant/Advisor to the Multi-National Force-Iraq on rule of law issues and before that practiced international and political litigation in Washington, DC. Shapiro writes the "Dispatches from Purple America" column for TCS Daily (available at http://www.tcsdaily.com/Authors.aspx?id=270), and has written for the L.A. Times, Washington Times, Weekly Standard, National Review Online, and other publications. Before entering private practice, Shapiro clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit while living in Mississippi and traveling around the Deep South. He holds degrees from Princeton University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Chicago, and is an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School. His interests include legal theory, Russian and Latin American politics, and the Olympics. |
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