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Thomas A. Berry

Director, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, Cato Institute

Thomas Berry is the director of the Cato Institute’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies and editor in chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. Before joining Cato, he was an attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation and clerked for Judge E. Grady Jolly of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Berry’s areas of interest include the separation of powers, executive branch appointments, and First Amendment freedom of speech. Berry’s academic work has appeared in The Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, NYU Journal of Law and Liberty, and Washington and Lee Law Review Online, with shorter pieces in the Notice and Comment blog, of the Yale Journal on Regulation, Lawfare, and Law and Liberty. His popular writing has appeared in many outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNN​.com, The National Law Journal, National Review, Reason, and The Hill.

Berry has testified on the appointments clause before a subcommittee of the US Senate, and his work on the Vacancies Act has been cited by the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

Berry holds a JD from Stanford Law School, where he was a senior editor on the Stanford Law and Policy Review and a Bradley Fellow in the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. He graduated with a BA in liberal arts from St. John’s College, Santa Fe.

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