Richard A. Epstein

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Researcher | Writer | Lecturer | Professor of Law — New York University Law School | Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution

Richard A. Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow (adjunct) at the Hoover Institution, is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University Law School, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago. In 2011, Epstein was a recipient of the Bradley Prize for outstanding achievement. In 2005, the College of William & Mary School of Law awarded him the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize. Epstein researches and writes in a broad range of constitutional, economic, historical, and philosophical subjects. He has taught administrative law, antitrust law, communications law, constitutional law, corporation criminal law, employment discrimination law, environmental law, food and drug law, health law, labor law, Roman law, real estate development and finance, and individual and corporate taxation.

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The Case Against Birthright Citizenship by Richard Epstein

No one at the time or now has advanced a coherent explanation as to why birthright citizenship is desirable as a matter of principle.

Featured on: Friday, January 31, 2025

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Land Acknowledgement

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