Randy Barnett

Randy Barnett is the Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law at the Georgetown University Law Center and Faculty Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. After graduating from Northwestern and Harvard Law School, he was a prosecutor in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office in Chicago. In 2004, Barnett argued the Gonzalez vs. Raich Supreme Court case and was one of the lawyers representing the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) in its constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act in the 2012 case NFIB v. Sebelius. A Guggenheim fellow, he has been a visiting professor at Penn, Northwestern, and Harvard Law School. He is the author of “Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People” and his most recent book “The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit.”