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Professor of Law
shalpin@sulc.edu
(225) 771-4900 ext. 219
Courses taught:
constitutional law, human rights, employment
discrimination
Since joining the law faculty in
1990, Stanley A. Halpin, Jr., has held the title of
full professor of law for almost 10 years. He has
chaired the Law Center’s Speakers Series Committee
for the past seven years, successfully attracting
national speakers on civil and human rights and
public interest law.
His prior teaching experiences
include visiting assistant professor of political
science and special lecturer in political science at
the University of New Orleans and lecturer at the
Tulane University School of Social Work.
Admitted to practice before the
Louisiana and District of Columbia bars, the United
States District Courts for the eastern and western
districts of Louisiana, and the United States
Supreme Court, Halpin’s has an extensive background
in public interest law, handling major cases that
ended racially discriminatory methods of election,
established single-member district preference in
court-drawn electoral plans, invalidated a
discriminatory parade law used against Civil Rights
marchers, and enjoined the use of the Confederate
flag in public schools.
From 1969-1972, he was staff
counsel and chief counsel of the Lawyers
Constitutional Defense Committee of the American
Civil Liberties Union in New Orleans, Louisiana.
During the 1980s, he was director of Farmworkers
Legal Assistance Project of Louisiana and Litigation
Training Specialist for the New Mexico Legal
Services Support Project. He also was a private
practitioner from 1988-1990 and 1972-1980.
His primary research area is
voting rights law and he has published widely on
minority voting rights and representation in the
South; racial gerrymandering and legislative
redistricting.
Professor Halpin earned a
bachelor’s degree from the University of
Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, a J.D.
from Tulane University School of Law, New Orleans,
and a Ph.D., from George Washington University,
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