# Randy E. Barnett on the Structure of Liberty

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/videos/randy-e-barnett-structure-liberty>

**By** Randy E. Barnett

**Published:** August 25, 1997

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Barnett explains his classical, natural rights approach to liberty.

Professor Randy E. Barnett teaches constitutional law and contracts at the Georgetown University Law Center. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute. In this lecture from a 1997 meeting of the International Society for Individual Liberty he outlines arguments that would later become a core part of his book _The Structure of Liberty: Justice and the Rule of Law_ (2000).