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 with Adam White, and is a frequent guest on the John Batchelor Show.

Research topics

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

Selected publications

• The Hopeless Case For Birthright Citizenship: The Fourteenth Amendment Did Not Touch the Status of the Children of Illegal Aliens and Temporary Visitors to the United States

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01

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• SOY volume 40 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

  Social Philosophy and Policy · 2023-01-01

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• SOY volume 39 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

  Social Philosophy and Policy · 2022

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  • Environmental science
  • Business
  • Engineering

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• TABLE OF CASES

  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers eBooks · 2020

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  • Computer Science
  • Computer Science
  • Database

  Modern administrative law has been the subject of intense and protracted intellectual debate, from legal theorists to such high-profile judicial confirmations as those conducted for Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. On one side, defenders of limited government argue that the growth of the administrative state threatens traditional ideas of private property, freedom of contract, and limited government. On the other, modern progressives champion a large administrative state that delegates to key agencies in the executive branch, rather than to Congress, broad discretion to implement major social and institutional reforms. In this book, Richard A. Epstein, one of America’s most prominent legal scholars, provides a withering critique of how theadministrative state has gone astray since the New Deal.

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• INTRODUCTION: AN ACCIDENTAL BOOK

  Rowman & Littlefield Publishers eBooks · 2020

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  • Computer Science
  • History
  • Computer Science

  Modern administrative law has been the subject of intense and protracted intellectual debate, from legal theorists to such high-profile judicial confirmations as those conducted for Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. On one side, defenders of limited government argue that the growth of the administrative state threatens traditional ideas of private property, freedom of contract, and limited government. On the other, modern progressives champion a large administrative state that delegates to key agencies in the executive branch, rather than to Congress, broad discretion to implement major social and institutional reforms. In this book, Richard A. Epstein, one of America's most prominent legal scholars, provides a withering critique of how theadministrative state has gone astray since the New Deal.

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• Front Matter: Volume 10936

  2019-04-29

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  This PDF file contains the front matter associated with SPIE Proceedings Volume 10936, including the Title Page, Copyright information, Table of Contents, Introduction, and Author Conference Committee lists

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• Abstract 14981: Healthcare Access to TAVR Procedures by Population Density: A Focus on Healthcare Disparity in Florida

  Circulation · 2019-11-19 · 1 citations

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  Introduction: 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...

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• 1.6 A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF SCREENING FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER

  Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · 2016-10-01

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• Risk of Bias Assessment Forms and Summaries

  2015-10-01

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• Table 1, PICOTS

  2015-10-01

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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…