Biography
Ilya Shapiro is director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute and author of Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elites. He also writes the Shapiro’s Gavel newsletter.
Awards
Josh Blackman holds the Centennial Chair of Constitutional Law at South Texas College of Law and is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He has authored three books, and his latest, An Introduction to Constitutional Law, was a top five bestseller on Amazon. He is a contributing editor to Civitas Outlook.
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