Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow and director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute. Shapiro is the author of Lawless: The Miseducation of America's Elites (2025) and Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America's Highest Court (2020), coauthor of Religious Liberties for Corporations? (2014), author of "Shapiro's Gavel" newsletter on Substack, and editor of 11 volumes of the Cato Supreme Court Review (2008-18).
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Lawless IV: Leadership Failures Old and New
The pandemic showed the weakness of the leadership class. [UPDATE: Inadvertently posted it under my byline, but it's of course Ilya Shapiro's post, as the byline now reflects. -EV]
Lawless III: It's the Bureaucracy, Stupid
CRT gets all the attention, but this less-sexy part is equally important—if not more so.
Lawless II: Critical Theory Returns with a Vengeance
You can’t have legal education dominated by an ideology that denies the law’s legitimacy.
Lawless I: The Illiberal Takeover of Legal Education
My "lived experience" at Georgetown gave me a unique perspective on the higher-ed crisis.
President Obama's DAPA Order Oversteps His Immigration Powers
Obama's action is good policy, bad law, and terrible precedent.
Justice Scalia and the Libertarian Legal Movement
Libertarians disagreed with Scalia on many issues, but they also have to give him credit.
Gay Marriage and States' Rights: A Reason.com Debate
Does the legal challenge against Proposition 8 violate the principles of federalism?
