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Stephen P. Halbrook
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Dr. Stephen P. Halbrook has taught legal and political philosophy at George Mason University, Howard University, and Tuskegee Institute. He received his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center and Ph.D. in social philosophy from Florida State University.

The winner of three cases before the U.S. Supreme Court (Printz v. United States, United States v. Thompson/Center Arms Company, and Castillo v. United States), he has testified before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Subcommittee on Crime of the House Judiciary Committee, Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and House Committee on the District of Columbia.

A contributor to numerous scholarly volumes, he is the author of the books, That Every Man Be Armed: Evolution of a Constitutional Right; A Right to Bear Arms; Firearms Law Deskbook: Federal and State Criminal Practice; Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876; State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees; and Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War II. Dr. Halbrook’s scholarly articles have appeared in such journals as the Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law, Drug Law Report, George Mason University Law Review, Journal of Air Law and Commerce, Journal of Law and Policy, Law & Contemporary Problems, National Law Journal, Northern Kentucky Law Review, St. John’s Journal of Legal Commentary; Seton Hall Constitutional Law Journal, Tennessee Law Review, University of Dayton Law Review, Valparaiso University Law Review, Vermont Law Review, and William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal. His popular articles have appeared in such publications as the Wall Street Journal, San Antonio Express-News, Environmental Forum, USA Today, and Washington Times, and he has appeared on numerous national TV/radio programs such as “The Phil Donahue Show” and programs on Court TV, Voice of America, CNN, C-SPAN.

Books
Securing Civil Rights 2010
The Founders’ Second Amendment 2008
That Every Man Be Armed 1994
Events
The Supreme Court and the Battle for Second Amendment Rights July 22, 2010
The Supreme Court and the Battle for Second Amendment Rights June 8, 2010
What the Second Amendment Means Today July 2, 2008
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Commentary
Chicago versus the Second Amendment February 27, 2010
Don't Confirm Holder January 29, 2009
On Bill of Rights Day, Imagine the D.C. Gun Law in 1775 December 15, 2008
Citizens' Rights Reloaded June 29, 2008
The Right to a Gun? You Could Look It Up June 11, 2008
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Presentations
Confirmation Hearings for the Appointment of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court of the United States of America July 1, 2010
On the Nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to Be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States July 17, 2009
On the Nomination of Eric H. Holder, Jr., for Attorney General of the United States January 16, 2009
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Research Articles
Heller, the Second Amendment, and Reconstruction: Protecting All Freedmen or Only Militiamen? May 1, 2010
“Arms in the Hands of Jews Are a Danger to Public Safety”: Nazism, Firearm Registration, and the Night of the Broken Glass March 2, 2009
The Second Amendment Upholds an Individual Right March 10, 2008
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