Randy E. Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and contracts, and is Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. After graduating from Northwestern University and Harvard Law School, he tried many felony cases as a prosecutor in the Cook County States' Attorney's Office in Chicago. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Constitutional Studies, Professor Barnett has been a visiting professor at Penn, Northwestern and Harvard Law School.
Professor Barnett's publications include twelve books, more than one hundred articles and reviews, as well as numerous op-eds. His most recent book is Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People (HarperCollins 2016). His other books include:
·Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty (Princeton, 2d ed. 2014)
·The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law(Oxford, 2d. ed 2014)
·A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case (co-authored) (Palgrave, 2013)
·Contracts: Cases and Doctrine (Wolters Kluwer, 5th ed. 2012)
·Constitutional Law: Cases in Context (Wolters Kluwer, 2nd ed. 2013)
·The Oxford Introductions to U.S. Law: Contracts (Oxford 2010)
In 2004, he argued the medical marijuana case of Gonzalez v. Raich before the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2012, he was one of the lawyers representing the National Federation of Independent Business in its constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act. Recently, he appeared on PBS's Constitution USA with Peter Sagal;and he portrayed a prosecutor in the 2010 science-fiction feature film, InAlienable.
2019 Thomas M. Cooley Judicial Lecture
Georgetown University Law Center, Hart Auditorium600 New Jersey Ave NW
Washington, DC 20001
You Have the Right to Remain Innocent: Why You Shouldn't Talk to the Police
Georgetown Student Chapter
Georgetown Law - McDonough 110600 New Jersey Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20001
Becoming an Academic
2019 National Student Symposium
BCLS Room 240111 E Taylor Street
Phoenix, AZ 85004
Panel 1: The Original Understanding of “Privileges or Immunities”
2019 National Student Symposium
BCLS W.P. Carey Foundation Armstrong Great Hall111 E Taylor Street
Phoenix, AZ 85004
Panel 1: The Original Understanding of “Privileges or Immunities”
2019 National Student Symposium
On March 15-16, 2019, the Federalist Society's student chapter at the ASU Sandra Day O'Connor...
Panel 1: The Original Understanding of “Privileges or Immunities”
2019 National Student Symposium
On March 15-16, 2019, the Federalist Society's student chapter at the ASU Sandra Day O'Connor...
Panel: Who's Afraid of Substantive Due Process?: Original Meaning and the Due Process of Law
21st Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
Conventional wisdom holds that the original meaning of the "due process of law," as used...
Panel: Who's Afraid of Substantive Due Process?: Original Meaning and the Due Process of Law
21st Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
Conventional wisdom holds that the original meaning of the "due process of law," as used...
Necessary & Proper Episode 28: Perspectives on Marijuana
On today's episode, we bring you a discussion held at the Georgetown University Law School...
Constitutional Amendements
A Bill of Rights was not part of the Constitution of 1787. Its omission was hotly debated. Some Founding Fathers, most famously Alexander Hamilton, argued...
Federalism
This module in the Structural Constitution course highlights key debates about federalism: at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, throughout our history with...