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): Arthur Lake (actor) • Börje Salming • Gilles Lamontagne • John Ford (dramatist) • John Robertson (Glasgow MP) • Katrin Koov • Lindsay Anderson • Marguerite Bourgeoys • Monika Bergmann-Schmuderer • Morgan Taylor • Travis Roy

Born in the same month (April 1943): Aryeh Bibi • Gary Wright • Harley Race • James Herbert • Janet Evanovich • Jonathan Lynn • Max Gail • Michael Boyce, Baron Boyce • Mitchell Melton • Petro Tyschtschenko • Sumitra Mahajan • Tony Christie • Tony Esposito