Richard Epstein

Richard Allen Epstein is an American legal scholar known for his writings on torts, contracts, property rights, law and economics, classical liberalism, and libertarianism. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University and the director of the Classical Liberal Institute. He also serves as the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law emeritus and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago.

17 April 1943

Born on the same birth day (17 April): Chuck Menville • Doug Lewis (politician) • Edouard Wyss-Dunant • Giovanni Battista Riccioli • Heidi Alexander • John Robertson (Glasgow MP) • Lagle Parek • Lindsay Hartley • Margot Honecker • Peter Morris (surgeon) • Riccardo Patrese • Wheein • William R. Day

Born in the same month (April 1943): Alan Beith • Aryeh Bibi • Duane Allen • Frans Koppelaar • Gail Goodrich • Hugh Thompson Jr. • John Montagu, 11th Earl of Sandwich • John Watkins (Australian cricketer) • Louise Glück • Max Gail • Michael Boyce, Baron Boyce • Sumitra Mahajan