Timothy Sandefur
Timothy Sandefur
Timothy Sandefur is the Vice President for Litigation at the Goldwater Institute’s Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation and holds the Duncan Chair in Constitutional Government. He litigates important cases for economic liberty, private property rights, free speech and other matters in states across the country. Sandefur is the author of several books, including "Freedom's Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Liberty in an Age of Darkness" (2023), "Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man" (2018), "Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st Century America" (co-authored with Christina Sandefur, 2016), "The Permission Society" (2016), "The Conscience of the Constitution" (2014), and "The Right To Earn a Living" (2010), as well as more than 50 scholarly articles on subjects ranging from Indian law and antitrust to copyright law, the constitutional issues involved in the Civil War, and the political philosophy of Shakespeare, ancient Greek drama and "Star Trek." A frequent guest on radio and television, Sandefur is well known to radio audiences as “Tim the Lawyer” on the Armstrong and Getty Program, and his writings have appeared in Reason, National Review, the Claremont Review of Books, The Weekly Standard, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Objective Standard, where he is a contributing editor.  He teaches public interest litigation at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. He is an Adjunct Scholar with the Cato Institute and is a graduate of Hillsdale College and Chapman University School of Law.

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