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Law and Civil Liberties

Cato's constitutional scholars address a wide range of constitutional and legal issues — from federalism to economic liberty, property rights, civil rights, criminal law and procedure, asset forfeiture, and term limits, to name just a few. Cato expects the judiciary to be the "bulwark" of our liberties, as James Madison put it, neither making up nor ignoring the law but interpreting and applying it through the natural rights tradition we inherited from the founding generation.

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Experts

• Nat Hentoff, Senior Fellow (1st Amendment, civil liberties)
• Timothy B. Lee, Adjunct Scholar (Copyright and patent law, civil liberties, network neutrality regulation, intellectual property and technology)
• Robert A. Levy, Chairman (Gun control and 2nd amendment, law and public policy, the Supreme Court)
• Tim Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice (Civil liberties, the war on terrorism, overcriminalization, the drug war, the militarization of police tactics, gun control)
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• Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs (Constitutional studies, judicial nominees, the Supreme Court, the conservative legal movement)
• David Rittgers, Legal Policy Analyst (civil liberties, counterterrorism, and criminal justice)
• Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies and Editor-in-Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review (The Supreme Court, constitutional studies, civil liberties, law and politics)

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• Center for Constitutional Studies