Scott G. Bullock is an American lawyer who has focused on property rights issues such as eminent domain and civil forfeiture.
[2][3] He has been president and Chief Counsel at the Institute for Justice since 2016,[4] a nonprofit libertarian public interest law firm.
"[9] In the wake of Kelo, he and the institute led state court litigation and grassroots efforts to challenge eminent domain for private development.
[12][13] He has said that when the police pull drivers over for minor traffic infractions and seize their cash, they do not "respect fundamental notions of due process".
He was the lead attorney in an Institute for Justice case establishing protection for the right to earn a living where the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a licensing requirement for a group of monks in Louisiana who wanted to sell handmade wooden caskets.