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.
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
The Future of Originalism: Conflicts & Controversies
Virginia Student Chapter
University of Virginia School of Law580 Massie Rd
Charlottesville, VA 22903
Making a Murderer: A Conversation with Jerry Buting
Georgetown Student Chapter
Georgetown Law600 New Jersey Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20002
The Myth of Substantive Due Process
Northwestern Student Chapter
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law375 E Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611
Panel 1: The Original Understanding of “Privileges or Immunities”
2019 National Student Symposium
Scholars contest the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. In 1873, the Supreme Court rejected...
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...
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Wickard v. Filburn: The Aggregation Principle & Congressional Power [No. 86]
Short video featuring Randy Barnett
Where does Congress get the power to regulate activities like a farmer's wheat yield? While...