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Law and Civil Liberties > Civil Rights


Books and Book Chapters

Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It, Michael F. Cannon and Michael Tanner (Cato Institute, September 2005)

"Justice Kennedy’s Libertarian Revolution: Lawrence v. Texas," Chapter by Randy E. Barnett from Cato Supreme Court Review: 2002-2003.

"Unholy Fire: Cross Burning, Symbolic Speech, and the First Amendment in Virginia v. Black," by James L. Swanson, Cato Supreme Court Review: 2002-2003.

"The Expanding Federal Police Power," Chapter 16, Cato Handbook for Congress: Policy Recommendations for the 106th Congress, (1999).

The Affirmative Action Fraud, by Clint Bolick (1996).

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Cato Studies

"The Federal Marriage Amendment: Unnecessary, Anti-Federalist, and Anti-Democratic," by Dale Carpenter, Policy Analysis no. 570, June 1, 2006

"Understanding Privacy -- and the Real Threats to It," by Jim Harper, Policy Analysis no. 520, August 4, 2004

"Deployed in the U.S.A.: The Creeping Militarization of the Home Front," by Gene Healy, Policy Analysis no. 503, December 17, 2003

"Medical Savings Accounts: Progress and Problems under HIPAA," by Victoria Craig Bunce, Policy Analysis no. 411, August 8, 2001

"Individual Rights and Majoritarianism: The Supreme Court in Transition," by Geoffrey R. Stone, Policy Analysis no. 51, March 29, 1985

Opinion and Commentary

"In a Class Of Your Own," by Roger Pilon, Legal Times, June 16, 2008

"Dark Chapter of WWII Clouds Our Own Time," by Robert A. Levy, Rocky Mountain News, May 26, 2008

"Battle over Eminent Domain is Another Civil Rights Issue," by David Beito and Ilya Somin, The Kansas City Star, April 27, 2008

"Was the Civil War a Terrible Mistake?," by Jim Powell, History News Network, February 4, 2008

"Hate This," by Timothy Lynch, National Review (Online), May 3, 2007

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Legal Briefs

John Geddes Lawrence and Tyron Garner v. The State of Texas, Brief of Amicus Curiae, June 1, 2003 (PDF, 0 B)

Boy Scouts of America and Monmouth Council, Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale, June 1, 2000 (PDF, 0 B)

Events

"Greatest Emancipations: How the West Abolished Slavery," September 22, 2008 [Book Forum]

"Race and the State," February 27, 2008 [Policy Forum]

"The REAL ID Act: Unfixed by the Regs and Unworkable on any Time Frame," March 12, 2007 [Capitol Hill Briefing]

"John Stossel's "War on Drugs, a War on Ourselves"," July 24, 2006 [Capitol Hill Briefing]

Speeches and Congressional Testimony

"Testimony by Timothy Lynch, The Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 1999," Cato Congressional Testimony, May 11, 1999.




Multimedia

Daily Podcast "Free Riding" featuring Timothy Lynch, December 24, 2007 [Flash Audio, 08:21]

Daily Podcast "One Year in Jail for Kareem" featuring Tom G. Palmer, November 9, 2007 [Flash Audio, 05:42]

Daily Podcast "The Fight for Our Civil Liberties" featuring Anthony Romero, July 11, 2007 [Flash Audio, 07:42]

Weekly Video June 15, 2007: featuring Anthony Romero on his new book about civil liberties. [Flash Video, 03:14]

Daily Podcast "Is Habeas Corpus Back in Style?" featuring Timothy Lynch, June 14, 2007 [Flash Audio, 11:05]

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