Randy Barnett, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Randy Barnett

American legal scholar

Date of Birth: 05-Feb-1952

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Profession: writer, lawyer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Randy Evan Barnett (born February 5, 1952, in Chicago) is an American lawyer and the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at Georgetown University, where he teaches constitutional law, contracts, and legal theory.
He writes about the libertarian theory of law, contract theory, constitutional law, and jurisprudence and has argued cases in front of the Supreme Court. After attending Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Barnett worked as a prosecutor in Chicago.
Barnett's first academic position was at the Chicago-Kent College of Law of the Illinois Institute of Technology.
He later became the Austin B.
Fletcher Professor of Law at Boston University, where he served as the faculty adviser for the Federalist Society.
He joined the faculty of Georgetown University Law Center in 2006.
Barnett is a Senior Fellow of the Cato Institute and the Goldwater Institute.
His book The Structure of Liberty won the Ralph Gregory Elliot Book Award in 1998.
In 2008 he was awarded a Fellowship in Constitutional Studies by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.