Richard Epstein

Richard Epstein is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University. Previously, he taught at the University of Chicago Law School for nearly thirty years. Named by Legal Affairs as one of the country’s most influential legal thinkers, he researches and writes on a broad range of constitutional, economic, historical, and philosophical subjects. The former editor of the Journal of Legal Studies and the Journal of Law and Economics, he has published numerous articles and books, including “The Classical Liberal Constitution: The Uncertain Quest for Limited Government” (2013). He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1985. Epstein received an LL.D., h.c., from the University of Ghent in 2003 and was a winner of the Bradley Prize in 2011.