17 Facts About Ilya Somin

Ilya Somin was born on 1973 and is a law professor at George Mason University, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, a blogger for the Volokh Conspiracy, and a former co-editor of the Supreme Court Economic Review .

Ilya Somin's research focuses on constitutional law, property law, migration rights, and the study of popular political participation and its implications for constitutional democracy.

Ilya Somin has argued for this position in a number of published articles, and has in particular been critical of the ideal of deliberative democracy.

Ilya Somin notes that rational irrationality, as described by Bryan Caplan in The Myth of the Rational Voter, is a problem.

Ilya Somin departs from traditional public choice theorists by carving out an important place for rational irrationality, while at the same time disagreeing with Caplan's assertion that rational ignorance alone would not be a problem.

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Ilya Somin defended the theory in the lead essay of Cato Unbound in October 2013.

Gerken's response essay used the fox versus hedgehog distinction, arguing that Ilya Somin's ideal voter was a fox, whereas David Schleicher's work stressed that voters tended to be hedgehogs and use their party affiliation as an informational shortcut.

Ilya Somin published a much-cited article on political ignorance in the interdisciplinary journal Critical Review in 1998.

Ilya Somin is a proponent of originalism: he argues that judges should interpret the Constitution according to its original public meaning.

Ilya Somin has written an article about the relationship and tension between constitutional originalism and political ignorance.

Ilya Somin has blogged about the history of originalism, the relation between originalism and discrimination, the relation between originalism and affirmative action, and other topics related to originalism.

Ilya Somin has been critical of eminent domain laws that permit governments to take over land by force.

Ilya Somin is the co-author, along with other Volokh Conspiracy bloggers, of the book A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case.

Ilya Somin's co-authors include Randy Barnett, Jonathan Adler, David Bernstein, Orin Kerr, and David Kopel.

Ilya Somin is co-editor of Eminent Domain in Comparative Perspective, published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.

Ilya Somin has participated many times in the New York Times Room for Debate Forum.

Ilya Somin's articles have been published by a number of mainstream news and opinion outlets in the United States including the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, CNN, National Review, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, and others.