Ilya Shapiro, "Freezing Neighborhoods in Amber: When Over-Preservation Impedes City Growth"

With commentary by Richard Friedman

Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. Before joining Cato, he was a special assistant/adviser to the Multi-National Force in Iraq on rule-of-law issues and practiced at Patton Boggs and Cleary Gottlieb. He also regularly provides commentary for various media outlets, including CNN, Fox News, ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision and Telemundo, the Colbert Report, and NPR.

Before entering private practice, Shapiro clerked for Judge E. Grady Jolly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Mr. Shapiro graduated from The Law School in 2003. He also holds an AB from Princeton University, an MSc from the London School of Economics.

Richard Friedman is an attorney is a member of the managing group at Neal & Leroy, LLC. He is experienced in municipal law, real estate law, public finance, litigation, eminent domain, historic preservation, and appellate practice. He also served as counsel to the Chicago Landmark Commission. Mr. Friedman lectures on eminent domain and historic preservation law, and has taught Historic Preservation Law here at the University of Chicago Law School. Mr. Friedman represents clients in appeals at all state and federal levels. Mr. Friedman received his BS from the University of Illinois at Urbana and his law degree from the Law School.

Presented on November 2, 2016, by the Kreisman Initiative and the Federalist Society.