Professor Stanley Halpin

As a Civil Rights Lawyer, Stanley Halpin litigated over 50 Voting Rights redistricting cases representing Black voters in Louisiana in the 1970s and Native American and Chicano voters in New Mexico in the 1980s. Some of these established the standard of proof under Section 5 and under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and led to the massive increase in Black elected officials in Louisiana following enhanced registration by federal registrars under the 1965 Voting Rights Act including the first Black Congressperson since Reconstruction. He retired from teaching Constitutional Law, Employment Discrimination law and Human Rights at the Southern University Law Center in 2018. This year he has written three law review articles relating to the development of the law under Section 2 and Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.