Richard Epstein Presents – Health Care in Limbo: Are there any viable proposals for reform?
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The Stanford Federalist Society welcomes Richard Epstein, speaking on the unconstitutionality of health-care reform.
The Federalist Society welcomes Richard Epstein, speaking on the unconstitutionality of health-care reform.
Located in Room 290 of the Stanford Law School classroom building. Free lunch will be served.
Richard A. Epstein, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, is the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Since 2007, he has been a visiting professor of law at New York University School of Law, and will be joining as a permanent faculty member in 2010. Epstein is considered one of the most influential legal thinkers of modern times.
In 2005 he was named by Legal Affairs magazine as one of the twenty leading legal thinkers in the United States. Epstein is known for his research and writing in a broad range of constitutional, economic, historical, and philosophical subjects. He edited the Journal of Legal Studies (1981–91) and the Journal of Law and Economics (1991–2001). He is now a director of its Olin Program in Law and Economics. He served as interim dean of the University of Chicago Law School in the spring of 2001. He is a general columnist for the National Law Journal and writes for the Tech Forum on FT.com.
Epstein’s books include How the Progressives Rewrote the Constitution (2006); Free Markets under Siege: Cartels, Politics and Social Welfare (Hoover Institution Press, 2005), Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism (2003); Principles for a Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty with the Common Good (1998); Mortal Peril: Our Inalienable Right to Health Care? (1997); Simple Rules for a Complex World (1995); Bargaining with the State (1993); Forbidden Grounds: The Case against Employment Discrimination Laws (1992); and Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain (1985). Epstein is also the editor of Cases and Materials in the Law of Torts (8th ed. 2004) and has written a one-volume treatise, Torts (1999).
He received a B.A. degree in philosophy summa cum laude from Columbia in 1964. He received a B.A. degree in law with first-class honors from Oxford University in 1966 and an LL.B. degree, cum laude, from the Yale Law School in 1968. He spent the 1977–78 year as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He has been a senior fellow at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics since 1984 and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1985. He has been a Hoover fellow since 2000.
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