Roger Pilon
American academic (born 1942)
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Roger Pilon (born November 28, 1942) is an American philosopher and constitutional scholar working in the classical liberal tradition.[1] He is a senior fellow in the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, which he founded in January 1989 and directed until he became semi-retired on January 1, 2019. He is the inaugural holder emeritus of Cato’s B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies, Cato’s first endowed chair, established in 1998; and the publisher emeritus of the Cato Supreme Court Review, which he founded in 2001. From 1999 to 2019 he served also as Cato’s vice president for legal affairs.[2]
He is married to Juliana Geran Pilon.[3]
Selected works
- Pilon, Roger (1979). "Ordering Rights Consistently: Or What We Do and Do Not Have Rights To". Georgia Law Review. 13: 1171–96.
- Roger Pilon, A Theory of Rights: Toward Limited Government (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1979).
- Roger Pilon, “Restoring Constitutional Government,” Cato Supreme Court Review, 2001-2002, ed. by James L. Swanson, Washington, DC (2002).
- Roger Pilon, “On the Origins of the Modern Libertarian Legal Movement,” Chapman Law Review 16(2) (2013): 255-268.
- Roger Pilon, “Congress, the Courts, and the Constitution,” Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 9th edition, ed. by David Boaz, Washington, DC (2022).