Andrew P. Napolitano was born on June 6th 1950 in Newark, New Jersey. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Notre Dame Law School. He sat on the Superior Court of New Jersey from 1987 to 1995, when he presided over more than 150 jury trials and thousands of motions, sentencings, and hearings.
Judge Napolitano taught constitutional law and jurisprudence at Delaware law School for two years and at Seton Hall Law School for eleven years. He was often chosen by his students as their most outstanding professor. He returned to private law practice in 1995 and began television work in the same year.
As the Senior Judicial Analyst for Fox News since 1998, Judge Napolitano broadcasts nationwide daily on the Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Network. He is nationally known for watching and reporting on the government as it interferes with personal liberty, private property, and economic opportunity.
Judge Napolitano lectures nationally on the U.S. Constitution, the rule of law, civil liberties in wartime, and governmental assaults on human freedom. He has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and numerous other publications. His weekly newspaper column is hosted by the Washington Times, foxnews.com, and numerous print and Internet venues and is seen by millions every week. The Judge is also Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches basic and advanced courses on the Constitution, and Distinguished Scholar in Law and Jurisprudence at the Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama, where he teaches constitutional law to future economists.
Judge Napolitano is a nationally recognized champion of personal freedom. The present book is his ninth book on the U.S. Constitution.