Northwestern University (BA) Harvard University (JD)
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Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law
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Guggenheim Fellowship (2008) Bradley Prize (2014)
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Randy Evan Barnett (born February 5, 1952) is an American legal scholar. He serves as the Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University, where he teaches constitutional law and contracts, and is the director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution.
After graduating from Northwestern University and Harvard Law School, Barnett tried felony cases as a prosecutor in the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in Chicago. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Constitutional Studies and the Bradley Prize, Barnett has been a visiting professor at Penn, Northwestern and Harvard Law School.
In 2004, Barnett 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 in NFIB v. Sebelius. He blogs on the Volokh Conspiracy.
Randy Evan Barnett (born February 5, 1952) is an American legal scholar. He serves as the Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown...
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anything concrete to litigate against.": 135 Libertarian law professor RandyBarnett attended his first Federalist Society event in 1986 and found the group...
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under the necessity as Judges to give it a free course." Professor RandyBarnett from Georgetown Law argues that such a presumption is itself unconstitutional...
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2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent occupations. However, others like RandyBarnett and John Hospers supported the Iraq War. In 2010, the Libertarian Party...
uncertainty. Contract Contract theory Complete contract Peremptory norm RandyBarnett, The Sound of Silence: Default Rules and Contractual Consent, 78 Virginia...
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originalist ideas and methods. He has expressed strong sympathies with the RandyBarnett new originalist vein of originalism, as it incorporates the natural...
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horrible" argument against the ACA. Some contributors of the blog—including RandyBarnett, Jonathan Adler, David Bernstein, Orin Kerr, David Kopel, and Ilya Somin—wrote...
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conclusion only through the Privileges or Immunities Clause. Legal scholar RandyBarnett argues that since no other justice, either in majority or dissent, attempted...
Privileges or Immunities Clause instead of the Due Process Clause. RandyBarnett has referred to Justice Thomas's concurring opinion as a "complete restoration"...
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