Sam Kazman is general counsel at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Prior to joining CEI in 1986, he was managing attorney of the Washington DC office of the Pacific Legal Foundation.
His op-eds and comments have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, The New York Times, National Review, and more. Kazman has also appeared on national radio and television programs such as The Today Show, Fox News, Fox Business, and C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, and National Public Radio, among others.
Kazman is a graduate of Cornell University and received his Juris Doctor cum laude at the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School.
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News
Biden Administration Will Force Americans to Buy More Expensive Cars That They Don’t Want
President Joe Biden plans to announce several measures aimed at lowering carbon emissions, including a new rulemaking for more stringent CAFE standards and an executive…
Lawsuit Challenges Biden’s National Climate Task Force’s Defiance of Freedom of Information Act
A new lawsuit by the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) seeks to subject President Biden’s National Climate Task Force to the federal Freedom of Information…
CEI Files Amicus Brief in Thompson v. Marietta Education Association Appeal for Cert at Supreme Court
The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) filed an amicus brief in support of a petition for cert at the Supreme Court in the case…
Blog
Seven Quotes about Communism
- By: Sam Kazman
Years ago, I pulled together some quotations about Communism that I thought would make good epitaphs for what I believed was a dying ideology. Unfortunately,…
Andy Thompson, Rest in Peace
- By: Sam Kazman
CEI lost a good friend and former colleague last week. Andrew M. Thompson, our very first fundraising director, died suddenly last Wednesday at his home…
CEI Files New Challenge to the Administration’s Fuel Economy Standards
- By: Sam Kazman
CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman discusses the issue with Walter Kreucher, one of the petitioners in the case, Walter Kreucher, a retired automotive engineer who…
Op-Eds/Articles
Real Clear Energy
Memory Holes Are Greatly Improved
- By: Sam Kazman
Memory holes are much more energy efficient today. And much less polluting. When George Orwell first introduced memory holes in his novel 1984, published 72 years…
The Washington Post
TPA Foot-Dragging Costs 30 Lives a Day
- By: Sam Kazman
In early 1985 the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute halted a study of two heart-attack therapies that it had begun less than six months…
The Hill
Supreme Court Should do What Congress Won’t: Rein in the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection
- By: Sam Kazman
This April, something remarkable happened in Washington D.C. The acting head of a federal agency told Congress that the agency he directs “is far too…
Studies
Rule Forcing Tests for Safer Air Bags Expected Today
Protect Federalism
- By: Sam Kazman
Recognize the Elitist Nature of Anti-Sprawl Measures
- By: Sam Kazman
Liberate to Stimulate Index For the greater part of the last century, many people have sought the American Dream by raising their…
Citations
The Washington Post
Trump’s Push for Faster, but Wasteful Dishwashers Appears Headed for Rinse Cycle
- By: Sam Kazman
The Washington Post cites general counsel Sam Kazman on the Energy Department’s plan to reverse Trump-Era changes to appliances: It was mourned by people…
The Washington Times
Biden Climate Task Force Ignored Open-Records Request, Think Tank Claims In Lawsuit
- By: Sam Kazman
The Washington Times cites CEI’s recent lawsuit: The Competitive Enterprise Institute filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to force President Biden’s newly created National…
The Washington Times
Biden Figures Wage War On Trump’s High-Performance Dishwasher Rule
- By: Sam Kazman
The Washington Times cites CEI General Counsel Sam Kazman on the Energy Department’s new high-performance dishwasher rule. Pushing back against the legal challenges was…