Randy E. Barnett
Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Law
Boston University School of Law
761 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Phone: (617) 353-3099
Email: rbarnett@bu.edu
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| Randy E. Barnett is the Austin B. Fletcher Professor at Boston University School of Law and is visiting this semester at Harvard Law School. He has taught cyberlaw, contracts, constitutional law, criminal law, evidence, agency and partnership, and jurisprudence. Before entering teaching, he was a criminal prosecutor for the Cook County State's Attorney's Office in Chicago where he tried many felony cases. A graduate of Northwestern University and Harvard Law School, he has previously visited at Harvard, Northwestern, and the Universidad Francisco Maraquin School of Law in Guatemala. He delivered the Kobe 2000 Lectures on Legal Philosophy at the University of Tokyo and Doshisha University in Kyoto, a series that previously featured Ronald Dworkin, Joseph Raz and Will Kimlicka. He has also lectured on contract law theory at Waseda University (Tokyo) and on criminal justice theory at Kansai University (Osaka). Currently, he is one of the lead attorneys for the Oakland Cannabis Cooperative in its pending case concerning medical marijuana. Professor Barnett's book, The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law, published by the Clarendon Press of Oxford University (1998), received the Ralph Gregory Elliot Book Award in 1998 and appeared in paperback as well as a Japanese translation in 2000. His other works include Contracts Cases and Doctrine, 2d ed. (1999), Perspectives on Contract Law, 2d ed. (2001), a two-volume anthology on The Rights Retained by the People: The History and Meaning of the Ninth Amendment (1989, 1993) and Assessing the Criminal: Restitution, Retribution and the Legal Process (1977) published while a law student. He is currently writing a new book, entitled, The Presumption of Liberty: Natural Rights and the Constitution and revising his contracts casebook for a third edition. Randy Barnett has appeared on such national outlets as The News Hour With Jim Lehrer (PBS), The CBS Evening News, The Ricki Lake Show, Hannity and Colmes (FOX), FOX in Depth, Talk of the Nation (NPR),Discovery Channel, and numerous local television and radio programs such as Greater Boston (WGBH-TV), NewsNight (NECN-TV), Chronicles (WCVB-TV), Chicago Tonight (WTTW-TV), Adler On-Line (WABU-TV), David Brudnoy (WBZ-AM) and Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg (WGN-AM). Before moving to Boston University, he was the Legal Affairs Contributor for WBEZ (NPR) in Chicago where he broadcast a 15-hour series on the Bill of Rights. |