The UNL College of Law's Federalist Society is hosting Ilya Shapiro at 12:05 p.m., Sept. 28 in the courtroom. Shapiro will hold the discussion "Obamacare and the Constitution." Professor Eric Berger will offer brief commentary after Shapiro's presentation. Lunch will be provided.
Shapiro graduated from Princeton University and earned a master's degree from the London School of Economics. He became a Tony Patiño Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, where he earned his J.D. Before joining the Cato Institute, he clerked for Judge E. Grady Jolly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, served as an adviser to the Multi-National Force in Iraq on rule of law issues and practiced international, political, commercial, and antitrust litigation at Patton Boggs and Cleary Gottlieb. A frequent commentator on a host of legal and political issues, Shapiro has appeared on a variety of television and radio outlets including CNN, Fox News, ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision, "The Colbert Report" and American Public Media's "Marketplace."
Federalist Society is an association of conservative and libertarian law students whose political viewpoints may differ on specific issues but who all share the concern that the law is sometimes used to destroy individual rights and liberties rather than to preserve them. The purpose of the organization is to provide like-minded individuals with an opportunity to interact and to promote an awareness of common beliefs.