Randy Barnett is the Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He has argued before the United States Supreme Court, tried murder cases to juries as a prosecutor in Chicago, and appeared as a prosecutor in the feature film Inalienable. He is the author of numerous books, including Restoring the Lost Constitution, The Structure of Liberty, Our Republican Constitution, and The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. He has published two memoirs, A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist, and Felony Review: Tales of True Crime and Corruption in Chicago. He is currently working on a new book, Freedom and Flourishing: Libertarianism for the Real World.
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What Everyone Gets Wrong About Rights: The Forgotten Conception
Las Vegas Lawyer Chapter
Fogo de Chao360 E. Flamingo Rd
Las Vegas, NV 89169
Enforcing the Ninth Amendment
Georgetown Student Chapter
Georgetown University Law Center (McDounough Hall Room 207)600 New Jersey Ave NW
Washington, DC 20001
General Law and Applied Topics
6th Annual UVA Originalism Symposium
Caplin Pavilion1826 University Ave
Charlottesville, VA 22903
What the Supreme Court Gets Wrong About Rights
NYU Student Chapter
NYU Law245 Sullivan Street
New York, NY 10012
What the Supreme Court Gets Wrong About Rights
Yale Student Chapter
Yale Law School127 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Courthouse Steps Preview: Trump v. Barbara
On June 27, 2025, a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District...
Courthouse Steps Preview: Trump v. Barbara
On June 27, 2025, a class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District...
General Law and Applied Topics
6th Annual UVA Originalism Symposium
What role does general law play in shaping constitutional interpretation, and how does it apply...
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Open Minds: Prof. Randy Barnett & Prof. Joshua Kleinfeld Part III
In Part Three of Open Minds with Prof. Randy Barnett and Prof. Joshua Kleinfeld, Prof....
Open Minds: Prof. Randy Barnett & Prof. Joshua Kleinfeld Part II
In Part Two of Open Minds with Prof. Randy Barnett and Prof. Joshua Kleinfeld, Prof....
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
How did the Founders envision federalism? Why is it a crucial part of our Constitutional government? Is it still functioning today in the way it...
Amendments
Amendments to the Constitution are almost as old as the Constitution itself. Learn more about the original “Amendments” (which we now call the Bill of...
The Founders
In order to understand the founding documents of the United States, you need to know something about the men who wrote them. What books or...
