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Richard A. Epstein. James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, and Peter and Kirstin Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Prior to joining the University of Chicago Law School faculty, Epstein taught law at the University of Southern California from 1968 to 1972. He served as Interim Dean from February to June, 2001. He received an LL.D., h.c. 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 1991-2001. At present he is a director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics.
His books include 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.
Professor Epstein is also a frequent contributor to the University of Chicago Law Faculty Podcast.
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Professor Epstein's University of Chicago web page
Ph. (773) 702-9563
Email: repstein@uchicago.edu
Articles The FTC, IP, and SSOs: Government Hold-up Replacing Private Coordination, 8 J.C.L. & Econ. 1 (2012), Richard A. Epstein, F. Scott Kieff, and Daniel F. Spulber. Property, Regulatory Policy, or Hybrid? The Elusive Status of Intellectual Property, Perspectives from Free State Foundation Scholars, Jan. 2011, Richard A. Epstein. Patent Injunctions and Repeat Offenders, Financial Times, November 11, 2010, Richard Epstein. Questioning the Frequency and Wisdom of Compulsory Licensing for Pharmaceutical Patents, University of Chicago Law & Economics Olin Working Paper No. 527, Richard A. Epstein and F. Scott Kieff. The Disintegration of Intellectual Property? A Classical Liberal Response to a Premature Obituary, 62 Stanford. L. Rev. 455 (2010), Richard A. Epstein. Will the Supreme Court Stem the Antipatent Tide?, Financial Times, July 30, 2009, Richard Epstein. The Unraveling of Patents in the US, Financial Times, Mar. 31, 2009, Richard Epstein. Breaking the Patent Logjam, Financial Times, Aug. 28, 2008, Richard Epstein.
Books
Other Media Content Federalist Society podcast, "Patent Rights: A Spark or Hindrance for the Economy?", October 24, 2012. Quanta: Patent Rights in the Supreme Court, a discussion between Richard A. Epstein, F. Scott Kieff, Fred von Lohmann, and Mark Lemley, moderated by Adam Mossoff. Produced by the Federalist Society's Intellectual Property Practice Group, September 30, 2009.
Other Publications Patents are not the enemy, Opinion, Chicago Tribune, August 15, 2012, Rod Cooper, Richard A. Epstein, and Stephen H. Haber. The FTC's Proposal for Regulating IP through SSOs Would Replace Private Coordination with Government Hold-Up, Submitted in Response to the FTC’s Request for Comments and Announcement of Workshop on Standard--Setting Issues, Project No. P111204, Aug. 5, 2011. Richard A. Epstein, F. Scott Kieff, and Daniel F. Spulber. Brief of Dr. Ananda Chakrabarty as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitoners in Bilski v. Doll, Supreme Court of the United States, No. 08-964 (Aug. 6, 2009). Richard A. Epstein and F. Scott Kieff.
Talks
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News
On September 10, 2012, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate F. Scott Kieff as a Member of the United States International Trade Commission and Joshua D. Wright as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission. On September 11, 2012, President Obama formally nominated Kieff and Wright; and the Senate confirmed Wright on January 1, 2013. Of the twelve people who have been members of our Project's research team, three have been nominated by a United States President to serve as a member of one of the independent government commisions focusing on the economy. In 2008, Troy A. Paredes, one of the Project's three founding investigators, was nominated by President George W. Bush as a Member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, a post in which he presently serves. On January 3, 2013, Kieff's nomination, along with the others pending at the end of the Senate's term, were Returned to the President under the provisions of Senate Rule XXXI, paragraph 6 of the Standing Rules of the Senate. On February 4, 2013, Kieff was re-nominated by President Obama.
On April 12, 2013 Richard A. Epstein debated the patent system with Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner at PatCon 3. Professor Epstein and Judge Posner were both featured speakers at the event, and the debate was covered at Patently-O and Written Description.
On October 24, 2012, Richard A. Epstein participated in a Federalist Society podcast on the topic "Patent Rights: A Spark or Hindrance for the Economy?"
Stephen H. Haber and Aldo Musacchio were awarded the 2012 Manuel Espinosa Yglesias Prize for their paper, "These are the 'Good Old Days': Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System." The juried prize was awarded by the Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias (CEEY) and includes both a monetary award and publication of the paper by the CEEY.
" Patents are not the enemy", an article by Rod Cooper, Richard A. Epstein, and Stephen H. Haber, was published in the Chicago Tribune on August 15, 2012. (Free registration may be required to view the article online.)
Defining Ideas has published Patently Bad Policy, an essay by F. Scott Kieff on two upcoming Supreme Court patent cases, Hyatt v. Kappos and Mayo v. Prometheus.
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