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Thomas A. Berry

Legal Fellow

Thomas Berry is a legal fellow in 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 Pacific Legal Foundation and clerked for Judge E. Grady Jolly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

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

Berry has testified before a subcommittee of the U.S. Senate on the Appointments Clause, and his work on the Vacancies Act has been cited by the U.S. 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 Student 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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