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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).
A full listing of his publications can be found at his personal site, http://randybarnett.com/.
Media Contact: 202-789-5200
To Book a Speaking Engagement: 202-789-5226
Books and Book Chapters
Constitutional Law: Cases in Context, (2008).
Contract Cases and Doctrine, (2008).
Recent Developments in Constitutional Law, (2008).
Perspectives on Contract Law, (2005).
Restoring the Lost Constitution, (2004).
Opinion and Commentary
"Tort Reform and the GOP's Fair-weather Federalism," DC Examiner, May 23, 2011
"The Nuts and Bolts of the ObamaCare Ruling," by Randy Barnett and Elizabeth Price Foley, The Wall Street Journal, February 2, 2011
"Who Is Afraid of the Repeal Amendment?," DC Examiner, January 3, 2011
"ObamaCare and the General Welfare Clause," by Randy Barnett and David G. Oedel, The Wall Street Journal, December 27, 2010
"The Case for a 'Repeal Amendment'," by Randy Barnett and William J. Howell, The Wall Street Journal, September 16, 2010
Cato @ Liberty Blog Posts
"Comstock & Health Care Litigation," May 17, 2010
"On ObamaCare, Don't Put Your Faith in the Courts," March 31, 2010
Legal Briefs
Seven-Sky v. Holder, May 23, 2011 (PDF, 122 KB)
Virginia v. Sebelius, April 4, 2011 (PDF, 89 KB)
Thomas More Law Center v. Obama, December 22, 2010 (PDF, 97 KB)
Virginia v. Sebelius, October 1, 2010 (PDF, 71 KB)
Virginia v. Sebelius, June 17, 2010 (PDF, 130 KB)
Events
"Brother, Can You Spare A Trillion? - Lessons from the New Deal and Great Depression," June 1, 2009 [Conference]
"The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty," March 23, 2009 [Book Forum]
Multimedia
Randy E. Barnett testifies on the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Obamacare on C-SPAN (February 2, 2011) [Media Highlights - TV, 05:48]
Randy Barnett discusses ObamaCare and the Commerce Clause. (December 30, 2010) [Cato Video, 05:48]
Cato Institute 8th Annual Constitution Day - Annual B. Kenneth Simon Lecture: Is the Constitution Libertarian? with Roger Pilon (September 17, 2009) [Events, 01:03:07]
Brother, Can You Spare A Trillion? - The Constitutional Legacy of the New Deal with Gene Healy and David Schoenbrod (June 1, 2009) [Events, 01:15:16]
The Tie Goes to Freedom: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy on Liberty with Roger Pilon (March 23, 2009) [Events, 01:11:48]
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