Trevor Burrus is a legal policy fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His work focuses on constitutional, civil, and criminal law, as well as on legal and political philosophy, legal history, and the interface between science and public policy. Previously he was a research fellow at the Cato Institute and editor in chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review.

Burrus has filed hundreds of briefs in the Supreme Court and other federal courts. Those briefs have mostly focused on protecting the Constitution’s system of ordered liberty through limited government and robust individual rights. His academic work has appeared in journals such as the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the New York University Journal of Law and Liberty, the New York University Annual Survey of American Law, the Syracuse Law Review, and many others. His popular writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, USA Today, Forbes, the Huffington Post, the New York Daily News, and others. Burrus has also lectured regularly on behalf of the Federalist Society, the Institute for Humane Studies, the Foundation for Economic Education, and other organizations, and he has frequently appeared on major media outlets.

He is the editor of six books: A Conspiracy against Obamacare (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); Deep Commitments: The Past, Present, and Future of Religious Liberty (Cato, 2017), and four volumes of the Cato Supreme Court Review. Burrus holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a J.D. from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.