The Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies presents: 

Randy Barnett

"The Myth of Substantive Due Process: Why Lochner Was Right"

With Commentary by Professor Stephen Siegel

Food provided.

Randy Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and contracts, and is Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. Professor Barnett is a Fellow at Cato and the Goldwater Institute and was a prosecutor here in Chicago. He has litigated several cases in front of the Supreme Court, including Gonzales v Raich and NFIB v Sebelius. Professor Barnett has published twelve books including the acclaimed The Structure of Liberty and more than one hundred articles. Professor Barnett is a graduate of Northwestern University and Harvard Law.

Professor Siegel's long-standing research interest is American legal history, although he also is highly regarded in the areas of property and constitutional law. Over the past decade, his articles have appeared in leading law journals, including law reviews published by Texas, Virginia, and Southern California; recently, he published major studies of jurisprudence and affirmative action as lead articles in the law reviews of Iowa and Northwestern and in the Law & History Review. Professor Siegel served as associate dean for research, scholarship and faculty development for DePaul College of Law from 2001 to 2009.