Ilya Shapiri is a Senior Fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and Editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review.

Before joining Cato, Ilya worked as a Special Assistant/ Advisor to the Multi-National Force-Iraq on law issues and practiced international, political, commercial, and antitrust litigation at Patton Boggs and Cleary Gottlieb.

Ilya Shapiro has contributed to a variety of academic, popular, and professional publicatuins, including the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, L.A. Times, USA Today, National Law Journal, Weekly Standard, New York Time Online, and National Review Online, and from 2004 to 2007 wrote the "Dispatches from Purple America" column for TCS Daily.

Ilya also provides comments for various media outlets, including CNN, Fox News, ABC, CBS , NBC , Univision , Telemundo , The Colbert Report , NPR , and American Public Media's Marketplace.

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. Previously, he was an inaugural Washington Fellow at the National Review Institut, and has been an Adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School, a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute. In 2015 National Law Journal named him to its list of 40 "rising stars" in the legal community.

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.

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

Besides, Ilya Shapiro is the Co-author of Religious Liberties for Corporations? Hobby Lobby, the Affordable Care Act, and the Constitution (2014).

Ilya Shapiro holds a B.A from Princeton University, a M.S from the London School of Economics, and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School (where he became a Tony Patiño Fellow). Prior to that, he received a High school diploma at University of Toronto Schools.

Ilya is a native speaker of English and Russian, is fluent in Spanish and French, and is proficient in Italian and Portuguese. He is married to Kristin Shapiro since 2013.