Hale 270

Thursday, April 3rd in Hale 270 at 7pm, Randy Barnett will speak on the rule of law in a polycentric constitutional order. Randy E. Barnett is the Austin B. Fletcher Professor at Boston University School of Law. He has taught cyberlaw, contracts, constitutional law, criminal law, evidence, agency and partnership, jurisprudence, and torts. 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. 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. Currently, he is one of the lead attorneys for the Oakland Cannabis Cooperative in its pending case with the federal government and for the plaintiffs in the medical cannabis case of Raich v. Ashcroft. Professor Barnett is the author of The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law, Contracts Cases and Doctrine, Perspectives on Contract Law, a two-volume anthology on The Rights Retained by the People: The History and Meaning of the Ninth Amendment, and Assessing the Criminal: Restitution, Retribution and the Legal Process published while a law student. His latest book, "Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty," will be published by Princeton University Press in the Fall of 2003. For more information, see Randy Barnett's Web site.