Randy E. Barnett is the Patrick Hotung Professor of Constitutional Law at the Georgetown University Law Center and is the Faculty Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution.He is a prominent legal theorist specializing in originalist constitutional interpretation. His work, notably in Restoring the Lost Constitution and Our Republican Constitution, advocates for a "presumption of liberty" rather than popular sovereignty as the foundation of constitutional construction. He is also a leading authority on the original meaning of the Second and Ninth Amendments, specifically for advancing the "Standard Model" interpretation of the individual right to bear arms.