Clark Neily serves as the Senior Vice President for Legal Studies at Cato. In this capacity, he is also the Vice President in charge of Cato's Project on Criminal Justice. His professional specialties include Criminal Justice, Civil Forfeiture, and Constitutional litigation.

Prior to his current role at the Cato Institute, Neily was a Senior Attorney at the Institute For Justice. He began his career as an Associate at Thompson & Knight Llp.