
Richard Epstein
· Laurence A. Tisch Professor of LawNew York University · Law
Active 1965–2025
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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
Summary of Existing Systematic Reviews
2015-10-01 · 2 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingCirculation · 2019-11-19 · 1 citations
articleIntroduction: We aimed to compare healthcare disparity based on access to TAVR centers in Florida using travel time and distance according to population density per square mile. Methods: We used da...
2015-10-01 · 1 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingSSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01
preprintOpen access1st authorCorrespondingSOY volume 40 issue 1 Cover and Front matter
Social Philosophy and Policy · 2023-01-01
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Frequent coauthors
- 159 shared
Fred D. Miller
Bowling Green State University
- 155 shared
Jeffrey Paul
University of Manitoba
- 125 shared
Jack F. Douglas
National Institute of Standards and Technology
- 122 shared
Baruch A. Brody
Rice University
- 122 shared
David Braybrooke
- 122 shared
James M. Buchanan
- 122 shared
Jules L. Coleman
Rogers (United States)
- 121 shared
James S. Fishkin
Stanford University
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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