Timothy Sandefur

Timothy Sandefur is a senior staff attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation in Sacramento, California, where he heads the Foundation’s Economic Liberty Project. He is a Cato Institute adjunct scholar, and a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute.

Sandefur earned his law degree from Chapman University School of Law in 2002. He is the author of more than 30 scholarly articles as well as the books Cornerstone of Liberty: Property Rights in 21st Century America (2006) and The Right to Earn A Living: Economic Freedom And The Law (forthcoming, 2010). He recently authored a friend of the court brief on behalf of Cato and the Pacific Legal Foundation in McDonald v. Chicago, the important Fourteenth Amendment case now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. He blogs regularly at Freespace.