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 Epstein discusses the topic, "Trump vs. Free Trade," on The Bob Zadek Show](https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/styles/resp__img__multimedia-sides-2x/s3/multimedia/radio-highlight/base_radio_highlight2.jpg?itok=DTdJ3khb×tamp=1416498411 "Richard Epstein discusses the topic, "Trump vs. Free Trade," on The Bob Zadek Show")
![Richard A. Epstein discusses, "Public v. Private 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-6-17-17.jpg?itok=6MU-7jI9×tamp=1497883542 "Richard A. Epstein discusses, "Public v. Private Property," on a Federalist Society produced video")
![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=3ZFZCrZG×tamp=1497883471 "Richard A. Epstein discusses, "What is Property," on a Federalist Society produced video")