Ilya Somin is the B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute, and a professor of law at George Mason University. He is the author of Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration and Political Freedom, Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter, and The Grasping Hand: Kelo v. City of New London and the Limits of Eminent Domain, and coauthor of A Conspiracy against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case.
Somin is widely published in both the scholarly and popular press, including the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and USA Today.
