A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist
The memoir of the law professor who built the constitutional case that nearly killed Obamacare.
Randy Barnett recounts a career spent turning originalism from a fringe position into a dominant mode of constitutional argument, including the challenge to the Affordable Care Act that reached the Supreme Court. It runs to more than 600 pages and is written from firmly inside the libertarian legal movement he helped build.
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Tyler Cowen
Randy Barnett, A Life for Liberty: The Making of an American Originalist, is a 616 pp. well-written memoir of a prominent libertarian legal theorist.
Source · May 2024
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