Richard A. Epstein is a senior research fellow at the Civitas Institute. He is also the inaugural Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, where he serves as a Director of the Classical Liberal Institute, which he helped found in 2013. He has served as the Peter and Kirstin Bedford Senior Fellow (adjunct) at the Hoover Institution since 2000. Epstein is also the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law Emeritus and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago.

A recipient of the Bradley Prize for outstanding achievement in 2011, 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. Epstein has written more than fifty books, they include, The Dubious Morality of Modern Administrative Law (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020), and The Classical Liberal Constitution: The Uncertain Quest for Limited Government (Harvard University Press, 2014, 2017). Epstein holds B.A.s from Columbia University and Oxford University and an LL.B. from Yale Law School.