Think Tanks:
American Civil Rights Institute
     “The American Civil Rights Institute is a national civil rights organization created to educate the public about racial and gender preferences.
     Based in Sacramento, California, ACRI's initial focus is on three areas: assisting organizations in other states with their efforts to educate the public about racial and gender preferences, assisting federal representatives with public education on the issue, and monitoring implementation and legal action on California's Proposition 209.”

American Enterprise Institute
     “AEI sponsors original research on government policy, the American economy, and American politics. AEI research aims to preserve and to strengthen the foundations of a free society–limited government, competitive private enterprise, vital cultural and political institutions, and vigilant defense–through rigorous inquiry, debate, and writing.”

Atlas Economic Research Foundation
     “Helps to create and develop independent public policy research organizations internationally by providing intellectual entrepreneurs with advice, financial support, workshops, and access to network of leaders who share commitment to achieving free society.”

Cascade Institute
     “Oregon's free-market think tank”

Cato Institute
     “The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace. Toward that goal, the Institute strives to achieve greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned lay public in questions of policy and the proper role of government.”

Center for Individual Rights
     “CIR is a nonprofit public interest law firm. CIR's purpose is the defense of individual rights, with particular emphasis on civil rights, freedom of speech, the free exercise of religion, and sexual harassment law. CIR provides free legal representation to deserving clients who cannot otherwise obtain or afford legal counsel and whose individual rights are threatened.”

Center for New Black Leadership
     “The Center for New Black Leadership is a not-for-profit, public policy research and advocacy organization that believes enduring racial equality presupposes a parity of economic and skill development between the races.”

Citizens for a Sound Economy
     “Citizens for a Sound Economy recruits, educates, trains and mobilizes hundreds of thousands of volunteer activists to fight for less government, lower taxes, and more freedom. … CSE believes individual liberty and the freedom to compete increases consumer choices and provides individuals with the greatest control over what they own and earn. … CSE’s aggressive, real-time campaigns activate a growing and permanent volunteer grassroots army to show up and demand policy change.”

Claremont Institute
     “The mission of the Claremont Institute is to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life.”

Competitive Enterprise Institute
     “The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. We believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being allowed to make their own choices in a free market place.”

EducationNews.org
     An online source of education news.

Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
     We highly recommend the activities of our friends at the Federalist Society, a membership organization for conservative, libertarian and generally open minded law students and practicing lawyers.

Goldwater Institute
     “The Goldwater Institute is an independent, nonpartisan, research and educational organization dedicated to the study of public policy. Through its research papers, editorials, and policy briefings, the Institute advocates public policy founded upon the principles of limited government, economic freedom and individual responsibility.”

Heartland Institute
     “The Heartland Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan research and education organization founded in 1984. Heartland provides journalists and elected officials with the best available research and commentary on today’s vital issues.”

Heritage Foundation
     “Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institute–a think tank–whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.
     Heritage's staff pursues this mission by performing timely accurate research addressing key policy issues and effectively marketing these findings to its primary audiences: members of Congress, key congressional staff members, policymakers in the executive branch, the nation's news media, and the academic and policy communities. Heritage's products include publications, articles, lectures, conferences, and meetings.
     Governed by an independent Board of Trustees, The Heritage Foundation is a non-partisan, tax exempt institution. Heritage relies on the private financial support of the general public–individuals, foundations, and corporations–for its income, and accepts no government funds and performs no contract work. Heritage is one of the nation's largest public policy research organizations. More than 200,000 contributors make it the most broadly supported in America.”

Hoover Institution
     " The principles of individual, economic, and political freedom; private enterprise; and representative government were fundamental to the vision of the Institution's founder. By collecting knowledge, generating ideas, and disseminating both, the Institution seeks to secure and safeguard peace, improve the human condition, and limit government intrusion into the lives of individuals.”

Hudson Institute
     “Hudson Institute is an internationally recognized public policy research organization that forecasts trends and develops solutions for governments, businesses and the public. Founded in 1961 by the late Herman Kahn, the Indianapolis-based not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization has more than 70 researchers and employees.

The Institute for Justice
     The IJ is a libertarian public interest law firm and is in court on behalf of individuals whose basic rights are denied by the state. The Institute is the nation’s champion for individual liberty, free market solutions and limited government. Through strategic litigation, training, communications and outreach, the IJ advances a rule of law under which individuals can control their own destinies as free and responsible members of society. It litigates to secure economic freedom, school choice, private property rights, freedom of speech, and other vital individual liberties, and to restore constitutional limits on the power of government.

Laissez Faire Books
     The world’s best selection of books on liberty.

John Locke Foundation
     “The John Locke Foundation seeks to transform North Carolina state and local government through the principles of competition, innovation, personal freedom, and personal responsibility.”

Mackinac Center for Public Policy
     “The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational organization devoted to improving the quality of life for all Michigan citizens by promoting sound solutions to state and local policy questions.
     The Mackinac Center is broadening the debate on issues that have for many years been dominated by the belief that government intervention should be the standard solution. We offer instead, policies that advance individual liberty, limited government, and respect for private property.”

National Center for Policy Analysis
     “The NCPA seeks innovative private-sector solutions to public policy problems.”

National Review

Pacific Research Institute
     “PRI researches and analyzes critical issues facing California and the nation, and crafts strategies for policy reform. PRI’s four research centers focus on education, the environment, entrepreneurship, technology, health care, tax policy, and other important issues facing policymakers and individuals today.”

Pioneer Institute
     “Pioneer Institute is a non-profit, non-partisan, Boston-based public policy research institute. Pioneer seeks to change the intellectual climate in Massachusetts by supporting scholarship that develops alternative approaches to real-world social and economic issues. The Institute believes that individual freedom and responsibility, limited and accountable government, and the expanded application of free-market principles to public policy contribute to greater human dignity, happiness,and economic prosperity.”

Rand Corporation Institute for Civil Justice
     “A nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.”

Reason Foundation
     “A national research and educational organization that explores and promotes public policies based on rationality and freedom.”

Texas Public Policy Foundation
     TPPF is a non-profit, non-partisan research institute guided by the core principles of limited government, free enterprise, private property rights and individual responsibility. The Foundation’s mission is to improve Texas government by generating academically sound research and data on state issues and by recommending the findings to opinion leaders, policy makers, the media and general public. The public is demanding a different direction for their government and TPPF is providing the research that enables policy makers to chart that new course.

Town Hall

Washington Legal Foundation
     “National in scope and fully independent, we at WLF commit our resources to working with our friends in government and our legal system to maintain balance in the Courts and help our government strengthen America's free enterprise system.”

Symposia, Discussion, Professional Organizations:
     We highly recommend the activities of our friends at the Federalist Society, a membership organization for conservative, libertarian and generally open minded law students and practicing lawyers: Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies.
     Professor Eugene Volokh of UCLA Law School has launched a web page on the collision between harassment law and free speech principles: Free Speech and Harassment Law (Eugene Volokh Site).
     The busy folks at the Center for Individual Rights in Washington also know a lot about the harassment-free speech issue: Center for Individual Rights
     General legal resources on the Web are now numerous; check out the Cornell resources or some other starting points: Law review links.
     Here is another we like: 'Lectric Law Library.
     Not everyone shares our premise that litigation is a bad thing to be discouraged except as a last resort...Hey, you...wanna sue?.
     ABA-'n'-ATLA are two other organizations not entirely on board with our program: American Bar Association & Association of Trial Lawyers of America.

Scholars, Writers and Analysts:
Steve Hayward, Pacific Research Institute
Robert Levy, the Cato Institute
Junk Science page
George Priest

Public Interest Law Firms:
Institute for Justice
Washington Legal Foundation

Tort Reform Organizations and Coalitions:
Lawsuit Abuse Makes Us Sick
Business Council of New York State
The Doctors’ Company
Health Care Liability Alliance
Illinois Civil Justice League
Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch
National Federation of Independent Business
San Diego Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse
Texans Against Lawsuit Abuse
Texans for Lawsuit Reform

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