Richard A. Epstein @RichardAEpstein
Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School hoover.org/publications/d… New York, Chicago, Palo Alto Joined November 2012-
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Gubernatorial strangleholds (based on faulty models) pose massive economic risk-in part by inflating CV deaths in the face of a declining threat. All decisions should be made at the margin-but here, the policies are fixed even as the needle has moved. hoover.org/research/gover…
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In 1991, Senator Joe Biden held my Takings in front of Clarence Thomas as an example of poor, even dangerous scholarship. Nearly 30 years later a defense of Takings through the prism of one case, Penn Central v. NYC hoover.org/research/joe-b…
W/ Anthony Kreis re fed v. state control over cover 19, + civil liberties issues. Sure to get bigger with time. fedsoc.org/events/viral-m…
Vermeule's illusion of common good constitutionalism-consistent with neither text nor theory hoover.org/research/probl…
latest column on CV- use of statistical lives & C/B analysis. Not enough real resources hoover.org/research/grim-…
Fed Soc NEPA panel--updating after 50 yrs. W/ B. Fewell; R. Glicksman; M. Loyola; T. Male. Responses to CEQ January Report. Epstein, Loyola pro; Glicksman, Male anti. fedsoc.org/events/updatin…
Adam White and I disagree, and how. Will the curve bend back and when. Sooner than later say I, and the some movement to roll back the blockade is necessary. Firm and individual responses will work better. hoover.org/research/reaso…
Interview with Dan Proft re CV--once again the dire restrictions on personal and business liberty not justified by the extrapolations from the data—will backfire economically omny.fm/shows/the-dan-…
Reason interview w/ Nick Gillespie re corona-- skeptical take as earlier, and newer shutdowns are wild over response. Even worse than several days ago. reason.com/podcast/richar…
My reason interview-still think quarantines an abuse, the risks overstated, and effectiveness of simple precautions, based on individualized risks under appreciated. reason.com/video/dont-exp…
Dissenting (lonely?) view on coronavirus. Numbers do not support a pandemic verdict. Large expansion of US or world cases unlikely. Fear overreaction will cause countless dislocations of its own. Criticisms always welcome hoover.org/research/coron…
More caution about public response to coronavirus-don't use CV as a reason to expand compensation systems or social safety nets. Key is to stop spread of CV. Loss prevention dominates loss spreading. reviewjournal.com/opinion/opinio…
Law Talk w/ Yoo & Senik -not just coronavirus but also, Catholic charities, Trump's libel suits; illegal immigration; and baseball's worst predictions. ricochet.com/podcast/law-ta…
On coronavirus, and it may already be somewhat out of date, given all the closings announced today. In general, question but defer to health authorities; but do not use the virus as an excuse to introduce permanent reforms that don't make sense hoover.org/research/playi…
W/ Yoo and Senik—on just about everything. The residue from impeachment; faithless electors in the Sup Ct. Sanctuary cities and counties, from left and right; the ripple effects of the Astro scandal.ricochet.com/podcast/law-ta…
Attacks on rent control; in general unconstitutional as taking of landlord property; specifically unconstitutional with 2019 stabilization law on weaker theory b/c no guaranteed rate of return on public utility model hoover.org/research/rent-…
In defense of union decline--monopoly institutions, never welcome, impose higher costs in open, fluid and innovative markets hoover.org/research/decli…
With Bill Whalen, Area 45-- do cheaters prosper in sports, politics, trade, and, well, life? hoover.org/research/area-…
Corporate "woeness" BlackRock Microsoft run ahead of data on global warming. Never quantify costs or benefits of their new programs, which miss obvious targets like bad forest management hoover.org/research/corpo…
Deficits and inflation—mysterious noncorrelation, but a bipartisan spending fest creates financial insecurity and could crowd out private investment reviewjournal.com/opinion/opinio…
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