Randy E. Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory 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 and Stare Decisis
22nd Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference
The Omni Shoreham Hotel2500 Calvert St NW
Washington, DC 20006
Showcase Panel III: Does Originalism Protect Unenumerated Rights?
2019 National Lawyers Convention
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
2019 National Lawyers Convention
Originalism
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Are We a Democracy or a Republic and Why Does it Matter?
NYU Student Chapter
New York University School of Law245 Sullivan St
New York, NY 10012
Are We a Democracy or a Republic and Why Does it Matter?
Columbia Student Chapter
Columbia Law School435 W 116th St.
New York, NY 10027
An Introduction to Constitutional Law: 100 Supreme Court Cases Everyone Should Know
Georgetown Student Chapter
Georgetown University McDonough Hall 205600 New Jersey Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20001
Showcase Panel III: Does Originalism Protect Unenumerated Rights?
2019 National Lawyers Convention
Does the original meaning of any constitutional provision protect fundamental rights? Substantive Due Process had...
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...
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...