Ilya Somin joins How Our Constitution Works And Why It Doesn't

William Cooper Podcast Channel · Oct 12, 2026 · 32m

ILYA SOMIN is Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, Professor of Law at George Mason University, and the B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute. His research focuses on constitutional law, property law, democratic theory, federalism, and migration rights. He is the author of Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom (Oxford University Press, revised and expanded edition, 2022), Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government is Smarter (Stanford University Press, revised and expanded second edition, 2016), and The…