Richard A. Epstein

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Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Law and Senior Lecturer at The University of Chicago Law School.

Epstein started his legal career at the University of Southern California, where he taught from 1968 to 1972. He served as Interim Dean from February to June, 2001.

He received an LLD, hc, from the University of Ghent, 2003. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1985 and a Senior Fellow of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago Medical School, also since 1983. He served as editor of the Journal of Legal Studies from 1981 to 1991, and of the Journal of Law and Economics from 1991 to 2001.

His books include The Case Against the Emplo...more Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Law and Senior Lecturer at The University of Chicago Law School.

Epstein started his legal career at the University of Southern California, where he taught from 1968 to 1972. He served as Interim Dean from February to June, 2001.

He received an LLD, hc, from the University of Ghent, 2003. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1985 and a Senior Fellow of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago Medical School, also since 1983. He served as editor of the Journal of Legal Studies from 1981 to 1991, and of the Journal of Law and Economics from 1991 to 2001.

His books include The Case Against the Employee Free Choice Act (Hoover 2009); Supreme Neglect Antitrust Decrees in Theory and Practice: Why Less Is More (AEI 2007); Overdose: How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation (Yale University Press 2006); How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution (Cato 2006). Cases and Materials on Torts (Aspen Law & Business; 8th ed. 2004); Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism (University of Chicago 2003): Cases and Materials on Torts (Aspen Law & Business; 7th ed. 2000); Torts (Aspen Law & Business 1999); Principles for a Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty with the Common Good (Perseus Books 1998): Mortal Peril: Our Inalienable Rights to Health Care (Addison-Wesley 1997); Simple Rules for a Complex World (Harvard 1995); Bargaining with the State (Princeton, 1993); Forbidden Grounds: The Case against Employment Discrimination Laws (Harvard 1992); Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain (Harvard 1985); and Modern Products Liability Law (Greenwood Press 1980). He has written numerous articles on a wide range of legal and interdisciplinary subjects.

He has taught courses in civil procedure, communications, constitutional law, contracts, corporations, criminal law, health law and policy, legal history, labor law, property, real estate development and finance, jurisprudence, labor law; land use planning, patents, individual, estate and corporate taxation, Roman Law; torts, and workers' compensation.(less)

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The Obama Administration often proclaims that it works overtime to strengthen the competitive position of U.S. industry. If it's sincere about this claim, it should be working to lower the time and cost that it takes pharmaceutical companies to bring new medicines to market, estimated to be over a decade at a cost of $1.3 billion per drug. read more »

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Average rating: 3.50 · 154 ratings · 27 reviews · 37 distinct works

	Cases and Materials on Torts 2.92 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Simple Rules for a Complex World 4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution 3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Principles For A Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty With The Common Good 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism by Richard A. Epstein, The University of Chicago Press (Manufactured by) 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic, Revised Edition 3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1995	My rating:
	Supreme Neglect: How to Revive Constitutional Protection for Private Property 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Theory of Strict Liability: Toward a Reformation of Tort Law 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1979	My rating:
	Mortal Peril 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating: