Civil Rights Practice Group

Second Amendment Historian Stephen Halbrook Demonstrates that Americans Have—and Always Had—a Fundamental Right to Carry Firearms Outside of the Home

Mark W. Smith

Stephen Halbrook’s recent, important paper in the Federalist Society Review, To Bear Arms for Self-Defense:...

To Bear Arms for Self-Defense: A “Right of the People” or a Privilege of the Few? Part 2

Stephen P. Halbrook

Federalist Society Review, Volume 21

Note from the Editor: The Federalist Society takes no positions on particular legal and public...

To Bear Arms for Self-Defense: A “Right of the People” or a Privilege of the Few? Part 1

Stephen P. Halbrook

Federalist Society Review, Volume 21

Note from the Editor: The Federalist Society takes no positions on particular legal and public...

When Missing the Point is the Point: The U.S. Civil Rights Commission Demonstrates Why We Have Recusal Norms

Dan Morenoff

Sometimes, a part of our government goes off-the-rails and pursues policies directly divergent from its...

Usual, But Wholly Misunderstood, Effects of Policies on Measures of Racial Disparity Now Being Seen in Ferguson and the UK and Soon to Be Seen in Baltimore

James Scanlan

In a February 22, 2016 commentary for The Hill titled “Things DoJ doesn’t know about...