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Leonard A. Leo serves as the Executive Vice President of the
Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies, an organization
of over 40,000 conservatives and libertarians dedicated to limited,
constitutional government and interested in the current state of the
legal order. He manages the projects, programs and publications of the
Lawyers Division. He also helps manage the Federalist Society's
government, media, and corporate relations, as well as special
initiatives such as the organization's Supreme Court Project and
International Law Project.
Mr. Leo has
participated actively in a number of international forums. He served as
a U.S. delegate to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in 2005, has
been an observer to the World Intellectual Property Organization,
participated in two World Health Organization delegations in 2007, and
is involved with the U.S. National Commission to UNESCO.
Mr. Leo has published articles on religious liberty under the U.S.
Constitution, presidential war powers, executive privilege, legislative
responses to judicial activism, property rights, and several federal
civil procedure issues. With James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal,
he is the co-editor of Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and
Worst in the White House (Simon & Shuster, 2004).
Mr. Leo received his undergraduate degree with high honors from Cornell
University in 1987 and his law degree from Cornell Law School with
honors in 1989.
Mr. Leo is active in the affairs of the
Catholic Church, serving as a member of the Sovereign Military Order of
Malta and a member of the board of the National Catholic Prayer
Breakfast.
Commissioner Leo was appointed by President George W. Bush.
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