The Case Against Employment Discrimination Laws

Colorado Lawyers Chapter

Speaker:

• Richard Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University School of Law and James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School

Speaker:

• Richard Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University School of Law and James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School

Considered one of the most influential thinkers in legal academia, and the nation’s foremost libertarian legal scholar, 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 (2013).  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. 
Professor Epstein also writes a legal column titled “The Libertarian,” http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/libertarian, and is a contributor to Ricochet.com and SCOTUSBlog.com.  

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