July 22, 2008 8:29AM 

# The Bloggingheads of the Conservative Legal Movement 

By [Ilya Shapiro](https://www.cato.org/people/ilya-shapiro) 

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On May 14 I ran a [book forum](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=4763) for Steve Teles’s insightful and provocative new book, *The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement*. The book is groundbreaking, in part because Teles is neither a lawyer nor a conservative — yet remains completely objective and analytical toward his subject matter. Well, it seems that the book tour/​publicity train keeps going, and yesterday Steve appeared on that vaunted new media institution, [bloggingheads](http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/12865), opposite *Newsday* columnist and Fox News commentator Jim Pinkerton. I’ve only watched a brief bit so far, but it looks pretty good.

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[Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) 

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