Stephan Kinsella

Stephan Kinsella
Member Judicial Committee
May 29, 2022—Present
Personal Details
Residence:	Houston, Texas
Party:	Libertarian
Media
Website:	https://www.stephankinsella.com/about/

Stephan Kinsella is an attorney in Houston and longtime libertarian writer. He is a member of the 2022-2026 Judicial Committee, serving as chair from Jan. 1, 2023 to July 31, 2023. He was an alternate seated with the delegation of the Libertarian Party of Texas at the 2022 National Convention.

He ran for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in 2002 as a Libertarian.

His libertarian publications include Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008) and Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, 2023); his legal publications include International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide, 2d ed. (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Louisiana Civil Law Dictionary (Quid Pro Books, 2011).

Kinsella is from Prairieville, Louisiana (born 1965). He attended Catholic High School in Baton Rouge. He received BSEE and MSEE degrees from LSU (1987 and 1990), a JD from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at LSU (1991), and an LL.M. (international business law) from King’s College London (1992).