MAURICE A. THOMPSON
Maurice A. Thompson is Executive Director of 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, a public interest law firm dedicated to protecting the constitutional rights of Ohioans from government abuse. Mr. Thompson directed the 1851 Center at the Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions, a Columbus-based free market think tank, prior to incorporating it as a separate entity. Previously, Mr. Thompson has served as an attorney for the Sam Adams Foundation in Chicago, practiced privately in Ohio and Illinois, and clerked for the Ohio judiciary.
Mr. Thompson has successfully litigated cases in the Supreme Court of Ohio, as well as intermediate courts of appeal and courts of common pleas throughout the state. Mr. Thompson has litigated constitutional issues related to property rights, voting rights, regulation, taxation, corporate welfare, search and seizures and smoking bans. He is also author of Presuming Liberty, using Ohio’s Constitution to Limit Government, Defending Liberty in Ohio, a Roadmap for Protecting Freedom and Limiting Government With the State Constitution, and the forward to Ohio’s Pocket Constitution.
Mr. Thompson is a regular guest on state and national radio programs, and frequently lectures on natural rights law, constitutionalism, individual rights, education policy, health care policy, and property rights.
Mr. Thompson is a native Ohioan. He undertook undergraduate studies in economics and philosophy at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and studied law at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Email Maurice Thompson here.
RYAN WALTERS
Ryan Walters is a staff attorney for the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law. Previously, Mr. Walters worked as an attorney in private practice in Columbus and Cincinnati, focusing on appellate litigation, and as associate general counsel with a publicly-traded energy company in Costa Mesa, California. He has also served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps.
A native Ohioan, Mr. Walters received his B.A. in economics and political science from The Ohio State University, a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School, and an LL.M. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.
