A Talk on Immigration Law: The Need For Reform
An audio recording of the presentation given by Ilya Shapiro on November 4, 2014 at Campbell Law School.
Photo by: James Clayton
On November 4, 2014 Ilya Shapiro gave a presentation on the current Immigration System and such issues as high-skilled workers, low-skilled workers, illegal aliens, suggestions for legislative reform, and actions taken by states and the federal executive in the absence of legislative reform. This discussion was hosted by The Federalist Society & Military Law Student Association, at Campbell Law School. The following is an audio recording of that presentation.
About the Speaker
Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. Before joining Cato, he was a special assistant/adviser to the Multi-National Force in Iraq on rule-of-law issues and practiced international, political, commercial, and antitrust litigation at Patton Boggs and Cleary Gottlieb.
Shapiro has contributed to a variety of academic, popular, and professional publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, National Law Journal, the Weekly Standard, the New York Times Online, and the National Review Online. He also regularly provides commentary for various media outlets, including CNN, Fox News, ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision and Telemundo, The Colbert Report, NPR, and American Public Media’s Marketplace.
Shapiro has provided testimony to Congress and state legislatures and, as coordinator of Cato’s amicus brief program, filed more than 100 “friend of the court” briefs in the Supreme Court. He lectures regularly on behalf of the Federalist Society and other groups, is a member of the Legal Studies Institute’s board of visitors at The Fund for American Studies, was an inaugural Washington Fellow at the National Review Institute, and has been an adjunct professor at the George Washington University Law School.
Before entering private practice, Shapiro clerked for Judge E. Grady Jolly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
He holds an AB from Princeton University, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School (where he became a Tony Patiño Fellow). Shapiro is a member of the bars of New York, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
