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

Randy E. Barnett est titulaire de la chaire Carmack Waterhouse de théorie juridique au Georgetown University Law Center, où il enseigne le droit constitutionnel et les contrats. Après avoir obtenu son diplôme de la Northwestern University et de la Harvard Law School, il a jugé de nombreuses affaires criminelles en tant que procureur au bureau du procureur de l'État du comté de Cook à Chicago. Il a été professeur invité à la Northwestern et à la Harvard Law School. En 2008, il a reçu une bourse Guggenheim en études constitutionnelles. En 2004, Barnett a comparu devant la Cour suprême des États-Unis pour plaider l'affaire du cannabis médical Gonzalez c. Raich. Il donne des conférences à l'échelle internationale et est apparu dans des émissions de radio et de télévision telles que CBS Evening News, PBS NewsHour, Talk of the Nation (NPR), Hannity & Colmes (FOX) et le Ricki Lake Show. Il a donné les conférences Kobe 2000 en jurisprudence à l'Université de Tokyo et à l'Université Doshisha à Kyoto. La bourse de Barnett comprend plus de 80 articles et critiques ainsi que 8 livres, dont Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty (Princeton, 2004), Constitutional Law: Cases in Context (Aspen 2008), Contracts Cases and Doctrine (Aspen, 4th éd. 2008) et Notre Constitution républicaine : Sécuriser la liberté et la souveraineté de Nous, le peuple (Broadside Books, 2016).

A Conspiracy Against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case pdf par 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.