Constitutional law expert whose arguments became the basis of legal challenges to Affordable Care Act to speak in UR's Marshall Series Feb. 8

Randy Barnett, professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University Law Center, will deliver a talk, “Who Won the Health Care Case (And Why Did So Many Law Professors Miss the Boat?)” Feb. 8, 4:30 p.m., in Jepson Hall 118 as part of the 2012-13 Marshall Center Lecture Series.

Barnett’s arguments became the basis of the legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act, nicknamed “Obamacare.” He will discuss the Supreme Court’s decision regarding the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act and why so many in academia were wrong about how the Supreme Court would rule. 

Barnett is director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution. He argued the medical marijuana case of Gonzalez v. Raich before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2004. In 2008, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Constitutional Studies.

He writes regularly for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and is a frequent guest on the CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and CNN.

The series is hosted by the John Marshall International Center for the Study of Statesmanship in the University of Richmond’s Jepson School of Leadership Studies. The talk is free and open to the public, but advance online registration is required at jepson.richmond.edu/marshall/index.html or by calling 804-287-6522.