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... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > ideologies > libertarianism > key people in libertarianism > Richard A. Epstein

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Richard A. Epstein  

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  • Richard A. Epstein, a law professor and legal theorist, teaches at the University of Chicago Law School and is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is one of the leading legal scholars in the United States and a prominent libertarian author.Epstein's work on eminent domain brought him fame when Senator Joseph Biden held up a copy of Epstein's book Takings during the 1991 confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism; Epstein, Richard A.]

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