Law and Legal Issues

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. The Center is especially concerned to encourage 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.

• Elections and Election Law
• Environmental Law and Regulation
• Labor Law and Regulation
• Product Liability
• Supreme Court
• Term Limits
• Tobacco
• Tort and Class Action Reform

• 2nd Amendment (right to bear arms, gun control)
• 4th Amendment (search and seizure, asset forfeiture)
• 5th Amendment (property rights, eminent domain and takings)
• Antitrust
• Campaign Finance
• Civil Rights
• Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement
• Drug Reimportation

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, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies

Mark Moller, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies; Editor in Chief, Cato Supreme Court Review