Timothy Sandefur
Goldwater Institute
Timothy Sandefur is the Vice President for Legal Affairs at the Goldwater Institute’s Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation and holds the Duncan Chair in Constitutional Government. Sandefur holds degrees from Hillsdale College and the Chapman University School of Law. Before his time with the Goldwater Institute, he served 15 years as a litigator at the Pacific Legal Foundation, where he won important victories for economic liberty in several states. Sandefur is the author of eight books, including most recently Freedom’s Furies: How Isabel Paterson, Rose Wilder Lane, and Ayn Rand Found Liberty in an Age of Darkness (2022), and Frederick Douglass: Self-Made Man (2018). Sandefur has also published over fifty academic articles on diverse topics such as constitutional law, the Civil War, eminent domain, antitrust and copyright law, Shakespearean political philosophy, and much more. He has been published in journals such as the Southwestern Law Review, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. Sandefur's non-academic writings have appeared in Reason, National Review, The Weekly Standard, The Wall Street Journal, and The Objective Standard, where he is a contributing editor. He has also taught classes at Pepperdine University, McGeorge School of Law, George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. Sandefur also makes routine radio and television appearances, such as on the Armstrong & Getty Show, where he is known as "Tim the Lawyer." Sandefur is also a He is an Adjunct Scholar with the Cato Institute and has contributed to the Federalist Society.