Constitutional Conversation with Professor Richard Epstein, “The Classical Liberal Constitution”
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Please join Professor Richard Epstein for a discussion of his recent book, The Classical Liberal Constitution: The Uncertain Quest for Limited Government (Harvard University Press, 2014), defending a classical liberal theory of governance and constitutionalism.
Richard Epstein
Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Considered one of the most influential thinkers in legal academia, Richard Epstein is known for his research and writings on a broad range of constitutional, economic, historical, and philosophical subjects. His many books include Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain (1985), Simple Rules for a Complex World (1995), and most recently, The Classical Liberal Constitution: The Uncertain Quest for Limited Government (2014). He has taught courses spanning the legal landscape, including on administrative law, antitrust, civil procedure, communications, constitutional law, contracts, criminal law, criminal procedure, environmental law, food and drug law, health law, labor, jurisprudence, land-use planning, patents, property, Roman law, taxation, torts, and water law. Epstein has been the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution since 2000 and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1985. He has also been a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago since 2011. This past year he became director of the Classical Liberal Institute, newly formed at NYU Law. Prior to joining Chicago’s faculty in 1972, he taught law at the University of Southern California from 1968 to 1972. Epstein received a BA from Columbia College in 1964 summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, a BA (Juris.) first class from Oxford University in 1966, and his LLB cum laude in 1968 from Yale Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif. He has been a member of the California Bar since 1969. He received an honorary degree from the University of Ghent in 2003, was awarded the Bradley Prize in 2011, and received the Norman MacLean Prize for Teaching Excellence from the University of Chicago in 2014.
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