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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July 31, 2026

Penna Dexter

Texas Tech’s Battle

Last November, the Texas Tech University system got a new chancellor, Brandon Creighton, who promised dramatic changes pertaining to academic freedom and woke, Marxist course content.

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July 31, 2026

Kerby Anderson

World Made Anew

“With a whimper rather than a bang, the world has become a different place than it was in January 2021, when Donald Trump left office.” That is how Victor Davis Hanson begins his commentary about the...

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July 30, 2026

Kerby Anderson

Left-Wing Violence

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is a Republican, and Representative Adam Smith is a Democrat. They may view the political world differently, but they can both attest to the danger of left-wing violence...

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