Richard A. Epstein

New York University School of Law

Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law

40 Washington Square South

New York, NY 10012-1099

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1.

Consumer Contracts: Behavioral Economics vs. Neoclassical Economics

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-17, Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 92, 2007-2008
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 25 Apr 2007
Oren Bar-Gill and Richard A. Epstein
Harvard Law School and New York University School of Law
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Animals as Objects, or Subjects, of Rights

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 06 Dec 2002
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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animal rights

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Transaction Costs and Property Rights: Or Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 17 Nov 1997
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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Fixing Obamacare: The Virtues of Choice, Competition and Deregulation

68 NYU Annual Survey of American Law 493-537 (2013), U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 418, U Illinois Law & Economics Research Paper No. LE08-023
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 16 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 30 Dec 2013
Richard A. Epstein and David A. Hyman
New York University School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center
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health reform, Obamacare, deregulation

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The 'Necessary' History of Property and Liberty

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 22 Apr 2003
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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U.S. constitution, individual rights

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Do Accounting Rules Matter? The Dangerous Allure of Mark to Market

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 458
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 16 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2010
Richard A. Epstein and M. Todd Henderson
New York University School of Law and University of Chicago - Law School
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financial bailout, mark-to-market, historical cost, bubbles, regulation, securities

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Liberty Versus Property? Cracks in the Foundations of Copyright Law

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 15 Apr 2004
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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intellectual property, property rights, liberty

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Trade Secrets as Private Property: Their Constitutional Protection

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 14 Jul 2003
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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intellectual property

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The Regulation of Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Virtues of Going Slow

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 76, No. 111, 2009
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 29 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2012
Richard A. Epstein and Amanda M. Rose
New York University School of Law and Vanderbilt University - Law School
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Sovereign wealth funds, private equity, going private, regulation, foreign investment, best practices

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Steady the Course: Property Rights in Genetic Material

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 25 Jun 2002
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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patents, antitrust, genome, condemnation, compulsory licenses

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The Disintegration of Intellectual Property? A Classical Liberal Response to a Premature Obituary

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 62, No. 2, p. 455, 2010, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 423
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 20 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2013
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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property theory, intellectual property, exclusive rights, alienation; licenses, patents, copyright, first sale doctrine, patent exhaustion, takings

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Toward a General Theory of Tort Law: Strict Liability in Context

Journal of Tort Law, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2010, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10-46
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 06 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 07 Nov 2010
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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apportionment, assumption of risk, causation, charitable immunity, medical malpractice negligence, strict liability, sequential wrongs, waiver

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Bell Atlantic v. Twombly: How Motions to Dismiss Become (Disguised) Summary Judgments

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 403
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 29 Apr 2008
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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antitrust collusion, telecommunications, FCC, summary judgment, judgment on the pleadings, discovery

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The Case Against the Employee Free Choice Act

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 452
Number of pages: 129 Posted: 04 Feb 2009
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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Allocation of the Commons: Parking and Stopping on the Commons

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 10 Sep 2001
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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Property rights, public lands, first possession, permits, parking

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The Optimal Complexity of Legal Rules

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 13 May 2004
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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The FTC, IP, and SSOs: Government Hold-Up Replacing Private Coordination

Journal of Competition Law & Economics, March 2012, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 414, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 578, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 578, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 11-26, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 568, Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 11-23
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 09 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 29 Dec 2013
Richard A. Epstein, F. Scott Kieff and Daniel F. Spulber
New York University School of Law, George Washington University - Law School and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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IP, SSO, RAND, patent, intellectual property, antitrust, competition, standard setting organizations, hold-up, ex ante, innovation, property, contract, coordination, private ordering, new institutional economics

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The Human and Economic Dimensions of Altruism: The Case of Organ Transplantation

Journal of Legal Studies, Forthcoming, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 385
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 03 Feb 2008
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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altruism, crowding out, kidney transplant, paired organ donations

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Navigating the Anticommons for Pharmaceutical Patents: Steady the Course on Hatch-Waxman

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 29 Apr 2004
Richard A. Epstein and Bruce Kuhlik
New York University School of Law and Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
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Michael Heller, Rebecca Eisenberg, patent protection, biomedical research

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Questioning the Frequency and Wisdom of Compulsory Licensing for Pharmaceutical Patents

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 78, p. 71, 2011, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 527, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10-48, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 567, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 567
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 20 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2011
Richard A. Epstein and F. Scott Kieff
New York University School of Law and George Washington University - Law School
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patent, intellectual property

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The Assault on Managed Care: Vicarious Liability, Class Actions and the Patient's Bill of Rights

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The Assault on Managed Care: Vicarious Liability, Class Actions and the Patient's Bill of Rights

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 14 Dec 2000
Richard A. Epstein and Alan Sykes
New York University School of Law and Stanford University - Law School
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The Assault on Managed Care: Vicarious Liability, Class Actions and the Patient's Bill of Rights

Posted: 05 Mar 2002
Richard A. Epstein and Alan Sykes
New York University School of Law and Stanford University - Law School

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Why Libertarians Shouldn't Be (Too) Skeptical About Intellectual Property

Progress & Freedom Foundation Progress on Point Paper No. 13.4
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 26 Apr 2007
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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Intellectual Property, IP, libertarian, social contract, property rights, liberty, property, happiness, freedom, Hobbes,Locke, Hegel, private property,socialism,ownership,property,competition,markets,capitalism,economics,patent, copyright

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In Defense of the 'Old' Public Health: The Legal Framework for the Regulation of Public Health

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 06 Dec 2002
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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public health law

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The Property Rights Movement and Intellectual Property

Regulation, Vol. 30, No. 4, Winter 2007-2008, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 381
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 20 Jan 2008
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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patents, injunction, absolute rights, equitable relief, genomic patents, water law, property rights, intellectual property, tangible property, infringement, policy, property rights movement, law

25.

Free Markets Under Seige

IEA Occasional Paper No. 132
Number of pages: 117 Posted: 18 Mar 2005
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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law and economics, institutional economics

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Is There a Biomedical Anticommons?

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 25 Jul 2004
Richard A. Epstein and Bruce Kuhlik
New York University School of Law and Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
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Anticommons, biomedical, pharmaceutical patents, intellectual property, patents, biomedical research, tragedy of the anticommons, liability, innovation, patents

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Playing by Different Rules? Property Rights in Land and Water

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Playing by Different Rules? Property Rights in Land and Water

EVOLUTION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS RELATED TO LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES, Lincoln Institute, 2010 , NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10-56
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 05 Dec 2010
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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water rights, riparian rights, takings; exactions, natural flow, reasonable user, navigation servitude alluvion

Playing by Different Rules? Property Rights in Land and Water

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 04 Dec 2010
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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water rights, riparian rights, takings, exacttions, natural flow, reasonable user, navigation servitude alluvion

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Introduction to 'The Going Private Phenomenon: Causes and Implications'

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 430
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 19 Sep 2008
M. Todd Henderson and Richard A. Epstein
University of Chicago - Law School and New York University School of Law
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In and Out of Public Solution: The Hidden Perils of Property Transfer

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 08 Aug 2001
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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Public lands, constitutional law, property law

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Intellectual Property and the Law of Contract: The Case Against 'Efficient Breach'

HOOVER IP² Working Paper Series No. 13002
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 26 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2014
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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intellectual property rights; expectation damages; efficient breach; injunctions; licenses

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Class Actions: Aggregation, Amplification, and Distortion

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 04 Apr 2003
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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What Is So Special about Intangible Property? The Case for Intelligent Carryovers

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 524, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10-49
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 18 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 07 Dec 2014
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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real and intellectual property, patents, licenses, injunctions, takings, remedies

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Takings Law Made Hard

Regulation, Winter 2009-2010
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 13 Jan 2010
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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The Application of Antitrust Law to Labor Markets — Then and Now

NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2021, Law & Economics Center at George Mason University Scalia Law School Research Paper Series No. 22-004, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 22-005
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 12 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2022
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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Biden, executive order on competition, certificates of need, covenants not to compete, mergers, monopsony power, unions, Clayton Act

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Supreme Court Amicus Brief of Professors and Scholars in Law and Economics in Support of the Petitioners, Pacific Bell Telephone Co. v. Linkline Communications, Inc., No. 07-512 (Filed Sept. 4, 2008)

U.S. Supreme Court
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 11 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 23 May 2012
William J. Baumol, Robert H. Bork, Robert W. Crandall, George Daly, Harold Demsetz, Jeffrey A. Eisenach, Kenneth G. Elzinga, Richard A. Epstein, Gerald R. Faulhaber, Franklin M. Fisher, Charles John Goetz, Robert W. Hahn, Jerry A. Hausman, Keith N. Hylton, Thomas Jorde, Robert E. Litan, Paul W. MacAvoy, Sam Peltzman, J. Gregory Sidak, Pablo T. Spiller and Daniel F. Spulber
New York University - Stern School of Business, Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Independent, Brookings Institution, Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, NERA Economic Consulting, University of Virginia - Department of Economics, New York University School of Law, University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School, Deceased, University of Virginia School of Law, Technology Policy Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Boston University - School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) - Council on Foreign Relations- Washington D.C., Yale School of Management (Deceased), University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, Criterion Economics, Inc., University of California, Berkeley - Business & Public Policy Group and Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
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Introduction to Spontaneous Order and Emergence of New Systems of Property

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 100, 2015, NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 15-49, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 15-21, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 736, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 552
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 03 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2016
Yun-chien Chang and Richard A. Epstein
Cornell Law School and New York University School of Law
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spontaneous order, Hayek, property

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The War on Plastic

Regulation, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 12-16, Fall 2006
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 15 Nov 2006
Richard A. Epstein and Thomas P. Brown
New York University School of Law and Nyca Partners
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credit cards, debit cards, electronic transactions, payment card, payment industry, antitrust,, cooperatives, integrated firms, richard epstein, thomas brown

38.

Public Use in a Post-Kelo World

Supreme Court Economic Review, Vol. 17, 2008, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 408
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 11 Jun 2008
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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Kelo, just compensation, land use planning, nuisance, public use, restrictive covenants, zoning

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A Wall of Separation Between Money and State: Policy and Philosophy for the Era of Cryptocurrency

The Brown Journal of World Affairs 29, no. 2 (Spring/Summer 2023): 1–16.
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 23 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2023
Max Raskin and Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law and New York University School of Law
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Monetary Policy, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Decentralization, Blockchain

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The Constitutional Protection of Trade Secrets and Patents Under the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009

Food and Drug Law Journal, Vol. 66, No. 3, 2011 , NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 11-30
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 16 Sep 2011
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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NRA v. City of Chicago: Does the Second Amendment Bind Frank Easterbrook?

University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 77, No. 4, 2010, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 496
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 16 Nov 2009
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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Carbon Dioxide: Our Newest Pollutant

Suffolk University Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 4, 2010, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 526, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10-47
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2013
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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air pollution, global warming, Supreme Court, Clean Air Act, Massachusetts v. EPA

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How to Create - Or Destroy - Wealth in Real Property

Alabama Law Review, Vol. 741, No. 4, 2007, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 384
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 03 Feb 2008
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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first possession, Lockean theory, nuisance, spatial externalities, temporal externalities, trespass, unconstitutional condition, zoning

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The Many Faces of Fault in Contract Law: Or How to Do Economics Right, Without Really Trying

Michigan Law Review, Forthcoming, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 445
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 08 Dec 2008
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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bailments, fault, efficiency gratuitous transactions, Hand formula, impossibility, negligence, objective versus subject standard, stranger cases

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Heller's Gridlock Economy in Perspective: Why There is Too Little, Not Too Much, Private Property

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 495
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 14 Nov 2009
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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Michael Heller, Gridlock Economy,

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Disparities and Discrimination in Health Care Coverage: A Critique of the Institute of Medicine Study

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 29 Apr 2004
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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FDA Involvement in Off-Label Use: Debate between Richard Epstein and Ryan Abbott

Southwestern University Law Review, Vol. 44, No. 1, 2015
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 11 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2016
Richard A. Epstein and Ryan Abbott
New York University School of Law and University of Surrey School of Law
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Food and Drug Administration, Administrative Law, Health, Pharmaceutical Policy, Off-Label Drug Use

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Happiness and Revealed Preferences in Evolutionary Perspective

Vermont Law Review, Vol. 33, 2009, Emotion in Context: Exploring the Interaction between Emotions and Legal Institutions Conference, University of Chicago Law School, May 2008
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 08 May 2009
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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Inside the Coasean Firm: Competence as a Random Variable

University of Chicago Law Review, Forthcoming, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 515
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 15 Mar 2010
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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Into the Frying Pan: Standing and Privity Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and Beyond

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Dec 2002
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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Sherman Act, monopolies, privity limitation, telecommunications, local exchange carriers, practical standing doctrine

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One Bridge Too Far: Why the Employee Free Choice Act Has, and Should, Fail

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 528, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10-53
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 17 Dec 2010
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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Unions, National Labor Relations Act

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Impermissible Ratemaking in Health-Insurance Reform: Why the Reid Bill is Unconstitutional

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 506, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 288
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 22 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 30 Dec 2009
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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healthcare, health care, health reform, Reid bill, unconstitutional, health insurance

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The Private Law Connections to Public Nuisance Law: Some Realism About Today's Intellectual Nominalism

Law & Economics Center at George Mason University Scalia Law School Research Paper Series No. 22-036, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 23-13, Journal of Law, Economics and Policy, Vol. 17.2
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 11 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2023
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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Public Nuisance

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Decentralized Responses to Good Fortune and Bad Luck

Theoretical Inquiries in Law, Vol. 9, No. 1, Article ll, January 2008, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 383
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 Jan 2008
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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charitable behavior, egalitarianism, libertarianism, luck redistribution, welfare rights

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Response to Questions in the First White Paper, 'Modernizing the Communications Act'

U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-11
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 18 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2014
Randolph J. May, Richard A. Epstein, Justin (Gus) Hurwitz, Daniel Lyons, James B. Speta and Christopher S. Yoo
The Free State Foundation, New York University School of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Boston College - Law School, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Communications Law, FCC, New Communications Act, Digital Age, Telecommunications Regulation

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Some Reflections on Custom in the IP Universe

Virginia Law Review in Brief, Vol. 93, p. 207, December 21, 2007, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 382
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 25 Jan 2008
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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custom, copyright, fair use

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Against Permititis: Why Voluntary Organizations Should Regulate the Use of Cancer Drugs

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 94, No. 1, 2009, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 494
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 14 Nov 2009
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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FDA, drug regulation

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Supreme Court Brief of Dr. Ananda Chakrabarty as Amicus Curiae in Support of Petitioners in Bilski

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 286, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 485
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 16 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 14 May 2014
F. Scott Kieff and Richard A. Epstein
George Washington University - Law School and New York University School of Law
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Business Methods, patents, innovation, software, biotechnology

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The Ominous Employee Free Choice Act

Regulation, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 48-54, Spring 2009
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 19 Aug 2009
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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efca, employee free choice act, nlrb, national labor review board, collective bargaining, wagner act, taft-harley act, landrum-griffin act, railway labor act

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Wright Stuff

Regulation, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 8-13, Spring 2007
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 06 Apr 2007
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law
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The Wright Stuff, Wright Amendment Reform Act, Love Field, deregulation, civil aeronautics board, reform, flight restrictions, Senator Hutchinson, Mayor Miller, environmental concerns, antitrust, eminent domain, prospective advantage

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How to Undermine Tax Increment Financing: The Lessons of Prologis v. City of Chicago

University of Chicago Law Review, Forthcoming, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 474
Posted: 01 Jul 2009
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law

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tax increment financing, takings, reasonable expectations, local government, public finance

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The Not so Minimum Content of Natural Law

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 219-255, 2005
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law

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Taxation with Representation: Or, the Libertarian Dilemma

Posted: 09 May 2005
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law

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Taxation, libertarianism, Nozick, democracy

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Hippa on Privacy: Its Unintended and Intended Consequences

Posted: 04 Apr 2002
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law

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regulation, privacy, health, insurance, medical research

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Contract and Trust in Corporate Law: The Case of Corporate Opportunity

Posted: 06 Oct 1999
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law

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Deconstructing Privacy: And Putting it Back Together Again

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 75
Posted: 07 May 1999
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law

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Exit Rights and Insurance Regulation: From Federalism to Takings

George Mason Law Review, Vol. 7, pp. 293-311, 1999
Posted: 15 Mar 1999
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law

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Contracts Small and Contracts Large: Contract Law Through the Lens of Laissez-Faire

Posted: 24 Sep 1998
Richard A. Epstein
New York University School of Law

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