Roger Pilon

Roger Pilon (born November 28, 1942)^[1] is Vice President for Legal Affairs for the Cato Institute, and an American libertarian legal theorist. In particular, he has developed a libertarian^{[dubious – discuss]} version of the rights theory of his teacher Alan Gewirth.

Education

Roger Pilon has three philosophy degrees: a B.A. degree from Columbia University and an M.A. and Ph.D., both from the University of Chicago. He also earned a J.D. from George Washington University.

General background

Pilon is the publisher of the Cato Supreme Court Review. His writing has appeared in such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times. He also frequently appears on television shows and testifies before Congress. In addition, Pilon held five senior posts in the administration of Ronald Reagan,^{[citation needed][peacock prose]} during which was investigated for possibly disclosing classified information to a foreign government, but not prosecuted.^[2]

He is married to Juliana Geran Pilon.^[2]

Works

• Pilon, Roger (1979). "Ordering Rights Consistently: Or What We Do and Do Not Have Rights To". Georgia Law Review. 13: 1171–96.
• Roger Pilon, A Theory of Rights: Toward Limited Government (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, 1979).
• Alan Gewirth, Reason and Morality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978)
• Alan Gewirth, "The Basis and Content of Human Rights," Georgia Law Review 13 (1979): 1148)