Richard A. Epstein, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at NYU
Law School, is an expert on numerous areas of the law, including
property, torts, land use, civil procedure, contract law, workers’
compensation, and Roman law. He is the author of Takings: Private Property and Eminent
Domain, Mortal Peril: Our Inalienable Right to Health
Care, Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for
Classical Liberalism, and Simple Rules for a Complex World. He
is also the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover
Institution, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago
where he was on the regular faculty from 1973 to 2010.
![Richard A. Epstein discusses, "What is Property," on a Federalist Society produced video](https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/resp__img__multimedia-sides-2x/s3/multimedia/2017/epstein-fedsoc-6-17-17b.jpg?itok=LL12gQvk×tamp=1497883471 "Richard A. Epstein discusses, "What is Property," on a Federalist Society produced video")
![Richard A. Epstein participates in the event, "Are Antidiscrimination Laws Hostile to Freedom or Essential to It?," at the University of Notre Dame](https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/resp__img__multimedia-sides-2x/s3/multimedia/2017/epstein-notredame-4-1-17.jpg?itok=TnQCJwhp×tamp=1493653275 "Richard A. Epstein participates in the event, "Are Antidiscrimination Laws Hostile to Freedom or Essential to It?," at the University of Notre Dame")
![Richard A. Epstein gives a keynote address at the Federalist Society event, "The First Amendment in Contemporary Society," hosted by the National Student Symposium at Columbia Law School](https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/resp__img__multimedia-sides-2x/s3/multimedia/2017/epstein-fedsoc-3-3-17.jpg?itok=Eto0Trbk×tamp=1489676575 "Richard A. Epstein gives a keynote address at the Federalist Society event, "The First Amendment in Contemporary Society," hosted by the National Student Symposium at Columbia Law School")
