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Ilya Somin
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ILYA SOMIN is an Assistant Professor at George Mason
University School of Law. His research focuses on constitutional law, property
law, and the study of popular political participation and its implications for
constitutional democracy. He currently serves as Co-Editor of the
Supreme Court Economic Review,
one of the country's top-rated law and economics journals. His work has appeared in numerous scholarly
journals, including the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review,
Northwestern University Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal,
Critical Review, and others. He has also published pieces in a variety
of nonacademic journals, including the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street
Journal OpinionJournal.com, Newark Star Ledger, Orlando Sentinel, South China
Morning Post, Legal Times, National Law Journal and Reason.
In Fall 2008, he will be serving as a visiting professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has previously been a visiting professor at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and the University of Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Before joining the faculty at George Mason, Professor Somin was the John M. Olin Fellow in Law at Northwestern University Law School in 2002-2003. In 2001-2002, he clerked for the Hon. Judge Jerry E. Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Professor Somin earned his B.A., Summa Cum Laude, at Amherst College, M.A. in Political Science from Harvard University, and J.D. from Yale Law School. He will soon complete his Ph.D. at Harvard.
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