Stephen Halbrook

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Stephen Porter Halbrook (born September 12, 1947 ) is an American lawyer and author known for his trials on behalf of the National Rifle Association . He has written extensively on the original meaning of the Second Amendment and the Fourteenth Amendment (the latter relating to the rights of the Second Amendment).

education

Halbrook attended Florida State University , received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1969 and a PhD in philosophy in 1972. He then attended Georgetown University and received his JD in 1978 . He began as a philosophy teacher at Florida State University from 1970 to 1972. He received his doctorate as and was assistant professor of philosophy at the Tuskegee Institute from 1972 to 1974 , from 1974 to 1979 at Howard University and from 1980 to 1981 at George Mason University . While studying law in Georgetown, he served as a lawyer for Georgetown's Barristers' Council from 1975 to 1977.

Career

Since 1978 he has been practicing civil litigation and criminal defense. He published several books and dozens of articles on the history of gun law, the historical background of the Second Amendment, modern gun control, Nazi gun control policy during World War II, and Swiss policy of armed neutrality during World War II. Halbrook received the David & Goliath Award from the organization Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership in 2014 . Halbrook first appeared on the Second Amendment scene with a 1981 article in the George Mason University Law Review. He argued that the Second Amendment guaranteed an individual right to arms and that the Fourteenth Amendment should make the guarantee of the Second Amendment enforceable against states. His dozens of articles in academic journals, as well as his books, played an important role in the interest in academic and legal interest in Second Amendment and firearms policy. He argued that the Second Amendment, properly understood, protects both the right of states to maintain a militia and the individual right to carry weapons in self-defense.

Act

Halbrook has brought and won three cases before the US Supreme Court : Printz v the United States, United States v Thompson-Center Arms Company, and Castillo v the United States. He has written pleadings in many other cases, including the following cases in the Supreme Court: Small v. The United States (regarding the Gun Control Act of 1968 ) and McDonald v. Chicago. He wrote a brief statement in the District of Columbia v. Heller case. His decades of research on the Second Amendment generally contributed to the intellectual basis of the Heller case decision, and he has written numerous books and articles on gun control. On the judgments of the Supreme Court (Heller, McDonald, Printz v. The United States) he testified several times before Congress. However, Halbrook's most important scientific contribution was the book That Every Man Be Armed , originally published in 1986. The book was the most thorough analysis of legal history and the original intent of the Second Amendment.

Books / articles

  • Gun Control in Nazi-Occupied France: Tyranny and Resistance Oakland: Independent Institute, 2018.
  • Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and "enemies of the State" Oakland: Independent Institute, 2014.
  • Why Can't We Be Like France? How the Right to Bear Arms Got Left Out of the Declaration of Rights and How Gun Registration was Decreed Just In Time For the Nazi Occupation , 39 Fordham Urb. LJ 1637, 2012.
  • Firearms Law Deskbook: Federal and State Criminal Practice. St. Paul, MN: Thomson / West, 2006. Previous editions with annual supplements by Clark Boardman Callaghan / Thomson / West Group, 1995-2005.
  • The Constitutional Right to Hunt: New Recognition of an Old Liberty in Virginia , 19 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 197, (2010).
  • Heller, the Second Amendment, and Reconstruction: Protecting All Freedmen or Only Militiamen , 50 Santa Clara L. Rev. 1073, 2010.
  • Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War II. Rockville Center, NY: Sarpedon Publishers, 1998 (hardback); Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2003 (paperback).
  • Target Switzerland has been translated into four languages ​​and has won two international awards.
  • The Founder's Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee for the Independent Institute, 2008.
  • Arms in the Hands of Jews Are a Danger to Public Safety: Nazism, Firearm Registration, and the Night of the Broken Glass. ExpressO, 2008.
  • The Swiss and the Nazis: How the Alpine Republic Survived in the Shadow of the Third Reich. Havertown, Pa .: Casemate Publishers; Gloucestershire, UK: Spellmount Ltd., 2006.
  • St. George Tucker's Second Amendment: Deconstructing "The True Palladium of Liberty", Tennessee Journal of Law & Policy : Vol. 3: Iss. 2, Article 3. 2006.
  • Freedmen, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Right to Bear Arms, 1866-1876. Westport, Conn .: Praeger Publishers, 1998. Updated edition published as Securing Civil Rights (Independent Institute 2010).
  • That Every Man Be Armed: The Evolution of a Constitutional Right. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984. Reprinted in 1994, 2000 by Independent Institute, Oakland, Ca.
  • NRA and Law Enforcement Opposition to the Brady Act: From Congress to the District Courts. Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development: Vol. 10: Iss. 1, Article 2. 1994
  • The Right of the People or the Power of the State: Bearing Arms, Arming Militias, and the Second Amendment , 26 Val. UL Rev. 131, 1991
  • A Right to Bear Arms: State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees. Westport, Conn .: Greenwood Press, 1989.
  • What the Framers Intended: A Linguistic Analysis of the Right to "Bear Arms ", 49 Law and Contemporary Problems 151-162, 1986.
  • Defectless Firearms Litigation (edited, with Michael K. McCabe). Washington, DC: NRA-ILA, 1984.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Literature by and about Stephen Halbrook in the catalog of the German National Library
  2. ↑ Halbrook, Stephen P. , id.loc.gov
  3. ^ A b c d e Greg Carter: Guns In American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law, Second Edition . ABC-CLIO, LLC, Santa Barbara, California 2012, ISBN 978-0-313-38670-1 , pp. 385-390.
  4. ↑ John Gibeaut, Bringing Lawyers, Guns and Money , ABA Journal
  5. ↑ Marjolijn Bijlefeld, People for and against gun control: a biographical reference , Greenwood Press, 1999, pp. 105-108 , ISBN 0-313-30690-7 , 9780313306907
  6. ↑ Stephen Halbrook: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms under the Second and Fourteenth Amendments The Framers' Intent and Supreme Court Jurisprudence .
  7. ^ David Cole: Engines of Liberty . Basic Books, New York 2016, ISBN 978-0-465-06090-0 , pp. 117-118.
  8. ↑ Stephen P. Halbrook .
  9. ↑ Amazon.com: Stephen P. Halbrook: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle .
  10. ^ Peter Finn: NRA money helped reshape gun law (en-US) . In: The Washington Post , March 13, 2013. 
  11. ^ Independent Institute: Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and "Enemies of the State" Author award
  12. ^ "Banning Small Metal Firearms and Plastic Firearms," ​​Undetectable Firearms, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Senate Judiciary Committee, 100th Cong., 1st Sess., Pp. 57-105 (1987).
  13. ^ "Infringements on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms," ​​Selected Crime Issues: Prevention and Punishment, Hearings before the Subcommittee on Crime and Criminal Justice, House Judiciary Committee, 102nd Cong., 1st Sess., Pp. 849-897 (1991 ).
  14. ^ "Prohibition of Firearms as an Infringement on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, House Judiciary Committee, April 25, 1994, p. 22 ff.
  15. ↑ "Semi Automatic Firearms and the Second Amendment," Assault Weapons, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Senate Judiciary Committee, 101 Cong., 1st Sess., Pp 165-205 (1990).
  16. ↑ Foundation for Western Thought (Foundation for Western Thought) prize, Zurich, 9 Nov. 2002, which included publication of booklet STAB Prize 2002 for Stephen P. Halbrook and Angelo M. Codevilla. “'Counterpoint to the Defamation of Switzerland': Awarding of the award to Stephen Halbrook and Angelo Codevilla,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, November 11, 2002, No. 262, p. 27.
  17. ↑ Max Geilinger Foundation prize for works contributing to Swiss and Anglo-American culture, Zurich, May 27, 2000, which including publication of booklet Die Schweiz im Visier. “Award for Stephen P. Halbrook: Presentation of the Max Geilinger Foundation Prize,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 31, 2000, p. 47.
personal data
SURNAME Halbrook, Stephen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Halbrook, Stephen P .; Halbrook, Stephen Porter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1947