Randy E. Barnett
Senior Fellow
Randy E. Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and contracts. 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. He has been a visiting professor at Northwestern and Harvard Law School. In 2008, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Constitutional Studies.
In 2004, Professor Barnett appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court to argue the medical cannabis case of Gonzalez v. Raich. He lectures internationally and appears frequently on radio and television programs such as the CBS Evening News, The News Hour (PBS), Talk of the Nation (NPR), Hannity & Colmes (FOX) and the Ricki Lake Show. He delivered the Kobe 2000 lectures in jurisprudence at the University of Tokyo and Doshisha University in Kyoto.
Professor Barnett’s scholarship includes more than eighty articles and reviews, as well as eight books, including Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty (Princeton, 2004), Constitutional Law: Cases in Context (Aspen 2008), and Contracts Cases and Doctrine (Aspen, 4th ed. 2008).
Books and Book Chapters
Restoring the Lost Constitution, (2004)
The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law, (2000)
The Rights Retained by the People, (1991)
Opinion and Commentary
"News Flash: The Constitution Means What It Says," The Wall Street Journal, June 27, 2008
"Cronyism," The Wall Street Journal, October 4, 2005
"William Rehnquist," The Wall Street Journal (Online), September 6, 2005
"Federalism Wins," National Review (Online), December 19, 2003
"Kennedy's Libertarian Revolution," National Review (Online), July 10, 2003
Multimedia
"Is the Constitution Libertarian?" featuring Randy E. Barnett, September 22, 2008 [Flash Audio, 09:30]