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Ilya Shapiro

Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute. Previously he was executive director and senior lecturer at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, and before that a vice president of the Cato Institute, director of Cato’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, and publisher of the Cato Supreme Court Review.

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 PolicyWashington PostLos Angeles TimesUSA TodayNational Review, and Newsweek. He also regularly provides commentary for various media outlets and once appeared on the Colbert Report.

Articles By Ilya Shapiro

Video: The Future of Judicial Impartiality in America

December 5, 2025

There was a time in American history when judges were considered neutral arbiters. They studied the law, applied it to cases, and instructed juries. What… Read More

Video: Lawless – The Miseducation of America’s Elites

May 1, 2025

In his new book, “Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elites,”   Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Ilya Shapiro shows how  US higher education has been transformed… Read More

Ban Masking Now

March 26, 2025

Early in the afternoon on New Year’s Eve, a man was violently thrown in front of an oncoming subway train in Manhattan. According to Ritchie… Read More