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.
Epstein in 2018
Epstein speaks at a conference in George Mason University (2009)
The Hoover Institution is an American public policy think tank which promotes personal and economic liberty, free enterprise, and limited government. While the institution is formally a unit of Stanford University, it maintains an independent board of overseers and relies on its own income and donations. It is widely described as conservative, although its directors have contested the idea that it is partisan.
The Hoover Institution in May 2014
Former United States Secretary of Defense Ash Carter speaks about defense innovation at the institution in Washington, D.C. in September 2016
Former Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Rex Tillerson during a Hoover forum in January 2018
View of the Hoover Institution's headquarters, including the Hoover Tower, among the Stanford University campus