Richard A. Epstein

Richard A. Epstein is the inaugural Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, where he serves as a Director of the Classical Liberal Institute, which he help found in 2013. He has served as the Peter and Kirstin Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution since 2000. Epstein is also the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law Emeritus and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago. He 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 a winner of the Bradley Prize in 2011. Epstein has written numerous articles on a wide range of legal and interdisciplinary subjects, as well as many books, including Simple Rules for a Complex World (1995) and Takings: Private Property Under the Power of Eminent Domain (1989). As Nathan Glazer wrote in The New York Times Book Review, “Epstein has to be taken seriously, and not only because of the power of his reasoning and his authoritative command of the common law and political philosophy.... His reasoning is strong, the knowledge of specific areas of policies is deep, and behind them stands his basic commitment to a more productive and efficient society.”

MORTAL PERIL: Our Inalienable Right to Health Care? (Addison-Wesley, 1997)

THE MYTH OF BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP: What the Fourteenth Amendment Really Says (Encounter Books, 2026)

OVERDOSE: How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation (Yale University Press, 2007)

PRINCIPLES FOR A FREE SOCIETY: Reconciling Individual Liberty with the Common Good (Addison-Wesley, 1998)

SKEPTICISM AND FREEDOM: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism (University of Chicago Press, 2003)