Randy E. Barnett is the Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law at the Georgetown University Law Center and the 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 and the Bradley Prize, Professor Barnett has been a visiting professor at Penn, Northwestern and Harvard Law School.
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. He has appeared in numerous documentaries, including PBS’s Constitution USA with Peter Sagal and A More or Less Perfect Union with Douglas Ginsburg; and he portrayed a prosecutor in the 2010 science-fiction feature film, InAlienable: The Movie.
Professor Barnett’s publications includes eleven books, more than one hundred articles and reviews, as well as numerous op-eds. His most recent book is An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know (2019) (with Josh Blackman).
Panel: Originalism & Its Discontents
23rd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
Webinar & Live StreamShowcase Panel I: Law, Social Justice, Wokeness and the Protests: Where Do We Go From Here?
2020 National Lawyers Convention
Zoom WebinarStare Decisis for Originalist Judges
California-Berkeley Student Chapter
Zoom Webinar -- University of California BerkeleyZoom
Berkeley , CA 94705
Stare Decisis for Originalist Judges
Illinois Student Chapter
Zoom Webinar -- Illinois504 E. Pennsylvania Ave
Champaign, IL 61820
What is at stake for Originalism in the Election?
Colorado Student Chapter
Zoom Webinar -- University of Colorado2450 Kittredge Loop Road
Boulder, CO 80309
McConnell v. Barnett | Retained by the People
The FedSoc Films Podcast
In this episode of the FedSoc Films Podcast, esteemed law professors Michael W. McConnell (Stanford...
Panel: Originalism & Its Discontents
23rd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
Originalism & Its Discontents11:00 am - 12:30 pm This panel will discuss some of the...
Showcase Panel I: Law, Social Justice, Wokeness and the Protests: Where Do We Go From Here?
2020 National Lawyers Convention
On November 12, 2020, the Federalist Society hosted a virtual panel for the 2020 National...
Showcase Panel I: Law, Social Justice, Wokeness and the Protests: Where Do We Go From Here?
2020 National Lawyers Convention
On November 12, 2020, the Federalist Society hosted a virtual panel for the 2020 National...
Retained by the People: The Ninth Amendment
Short video featuring Laurence Tribe, Randy Barnett, and Michael McConnell
It has been called a dead letter, an inkblot, the most important amendment in the...

Constitutional Amendements
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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...