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Richard Epstein

Richard Epstein

· Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law

New York University · Law

Active 1965–2025

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Citations56
Papers669 last 5y
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About

Richard Epstein is the inaugural Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, where he also serves as the Director of the Classical Liberal Institute, which he helped found in 2013. He has served as the Peter and Kirstin Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution since 2000 and is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law Emeritus and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago. Epstein has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1985 and has been a senior fellow of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago Division of Biological Sciences since 1983. He was awarded the Bradley Prize in 2011. Epstein has authored numerous articles on a wide range of legal and interdisciplinary subjects, as well as over 15 books, with his most recent being The Classical Liberal Constitution: The Uncertain Quest for Limited Government (Harvard University Press, 2014). His upcoming book, The Dubious Morality of Modern Administrative Law, is scheduled for publication in the fall. He is currently working on the 12th Edition of Cases and Materials in Torts. Epstein writes a weekly column for the Hoover Institution’s Defining Ideas, a monthly column for the Las Vegas Journal Review, and regularly contributes to publications such as the Wall Street Journal and Forbes.com. He also hosts several podcasts, including The Libertarian with Troy Senik, Law Talk with Troy Senik and John Yoo, and Reasonable Disagreements…

Research topics

  • Computer Science
  • Physics
  • Engineering
  • Database
  • Business
  • Environmental science
  • Mathematics
  • Thermodynamics
  • Mechanical engineering
  • History

Selected publications

Frequent coauthors

  • Fred D. Miller

    Bowling Green State University

    159 shared
  • Jeffrey Paul

    University of Manitoba

    155 shared
  • Jack F. Douglas

    National Institute of Standards and Technology

    125 shared
  • Baruch A. Brody

    Rice University

    122 shared
  • David Braybrooke

    122 shared
  • James M. Buchanan

    122 shared
  • Jules L. Coleman

    Rogers (United States)

    122 shared
  • James S. Fishkin

    Stanford University

    121 shared

Awards & honors

  • Bradley Prize, Bradley Foundation, 2011
  • Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1985
  • Honorary Member, The Law and Economics Association of New Ze…
  • Honorary Doctorate, University of Ghent, 2003
  • Honorary Professor, University of Applied Sciences, Lima, Pe…

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