The Cato Institute: Center for Constitutional Studies

Center for Constitutional Studies

Mission

Cato's Center for Constitutional Studies and its scholars take their inspiration from the struggle of America's founding generation to secure liberty through limited government and the rule of law. The Center's scholars address a wide range of constitutional and legal issues and encourage the judiciary to neither make nor ignore the law but interpret and apply it through the natural rights tradition inherited from the founding generation.

Policy Staff

Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs; B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies; Director, Center for Constitutional Studies
Timothy Lynch, Associate Director, Center for Constitutional Studies; Director, Project on Criminal Justice
Robert A. Levy, Chairman
Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies and Editor-in-Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review
David H. Rittgers, Legal Policy Analyst

Research

Publications from the Center for Constitutional Studies


Gun Control on Trial: Inside the Supreme Court Battle Over the Second Amendment by Brian Doherty	The Dirty Dozen: How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom by Robert A. Levy	David's Hammer: The Case for an Activist Judiciary by Clint Bolick	Cato Supreme Court Review: 2007-2008 edited by Ilya Shapiro	Cornerstone Of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st Century America by Timothy Sandefur

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