A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case PDF

Randy E. Barnett ist Carmack-Waterhouse-Professor für Rechtstheorie am Georgetown University Law Center, wo er Verfassungsrecht und Verträge lehrt. Nach seinem Abschluss an der Northwestern University und der Harvard Law School verhandelte er als Staatsanwalt in der Staatsanwaltschaft des Cook County State in Chicago in vielen Verbrechensfällen. Er war Gastprofessor an der Northwestern und der Harvard Law School. 2008 erhielt er ein Guggenheim-Stipendium für konstitutionelle Studien. Im Jahr 2004 erschien Barnett vor dem Obersten Gerichtshof der USA, um im Fall Gonzalez gegen Raich über medizinisches Cannabis zu argumentieren. Er hält international Vorträge und trat in Radio- und Fernsehprogrammen wie CBS Evening News, PBS NewsHour, Talk of the Nation (NPR), Hannity & Colmes (FOX) und der Ricki Lake Show auf. Er hielt die Kobe 2000-Vorlesungen in Jurisprudenz an der Universität Tokio und der Doshisha-Universität in Kyoto. Barnetts Stipendium umfasst mehr als 80 Artikel und Rezensionen sowie 8 Bücher, darunter Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty (Princeton, 2004), Constitutional Law: Cases in Context (Aspen 2008), Contracts Cases and Doctrine (Aspen, 4 Aufl. 2008) und Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People (Broadside Books, 2016).

A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case pdf von Randy Barnett

The debate over the Affordable Care Act was one of the most important and public examinations of the Constitution in our history. At the forefront of that debate were the legal scholars blogging at the Volokh Conspiracy, who engaged in a spirited, erudite, and accessible discussion of the legal issues involved in the cases - beginning before the law was even passed. Several of the Volokh bloggers played key roles in developing the constitutional arguments against the ACA. Their blog posts and articles about the Act had a significant impact on both the public debate and the legal arguments in the case. It was perhaps the first time that a blog affected arguments submitted to the United States Supreme Court on a major issue. In the process, the bloggers helped legitimize a new type of legal discourse. This book compiles the discussion that unfolded at the Volokh Conspiracy blog into a readable narrative, enhanced with new context and analysis, as the contributors reflect on the Obamacare litigation with the advantage of hindsight. The different bloggers certainly did not always agree with each other, but the back-and-forth debates provide momentum as the reader follows the development of the arguments over time. A Conspiracy Against Obamacare exemplifies an important new form of legal discourse and public intellectualism.