Anastasia Boden has been named director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies. She joins Cato from the Pacific Legal Foundation, where she was a senior attorney and led the equality and opportunity program. She got her law degree at Georgetown University, where she was a research assistant to Professor Randy Barnett, a Cato senior fellow. After law school she was both an intern and a legal associate at Cato.

Also at the Levy Center, Ilya Somin, professor of law at George Mason University and a longtime Cato adjunct scholar, is now the B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies. He’s the second occupant of the chair, after Roger Pilon, who held it from its inception in 1998. Somin is the author of several books, including Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter, and writes frequently both for law journals and the Volokh Conspiracy blog.

Joshua Shifrinson, a professor at the University of Maryland, has been named a nonresident senior fellow of the Cato Institute. Shifrinson has published extensively on international security policy, U.S.-Chinese relations, NATO enlargement, U.S.-Russian relations, and nuclear policy and is the author of Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power Shifts.

Marc Joffe has joined Cato as a federalism and state policy analyst. After a long career in the financial industry, including a senior director role at Moody’s Analytics, he transitioned to policy research, having most recently worked at the Reason Foundation. Joffe’s research focuses on government finance and state policy issues.

Chad Davis joined Cato in November as vice president for government affairs. He spent 12 years working as a staff member in the House and Senate. More recently he handled legislation, external affairs, and communications at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and other financial agencies.