RALEIGH, N.C. – Richard A. Epstein will deliver a presentation on John Locke’s Theory of Property at Campbell Law School on Tuesday, Feb. 10 at noon. The event is hosted by the Campbell Law Federalist Society, Triangle Federalist Society, and John Locke Foundation.
Area residents are invited to join the Campbell Law community in attending the presentation. Paid parking is available at the City of Raleigh Municipal Parking Deck across from the law school on West Morgan Street.
Epstein is the Peter & Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, as well as the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University Law School and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago. In 2005 he was awarded the Brigham-Kanner Property Rights Prize by the College of William & Mary School of Law.
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. He has authored several books, including “The Classical Liberal Constitution: The Uncertain Quest for Limited Government,” “Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration, and the Rule of Law,” and “The Case against the Employee Free Choice Act.”
Epstein holds bachelor’s degrees from Columbia (1964) and Oxford (1966), as well as an LL.B. from Yale Law (1968). Upon graduation from Yale he joined the faculty at the University of Southern California. In 1972, he visited the University of Chicago and became a regular member of the faculty the following year.
He has been a senior fellow at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics since 1984 and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1985. He has been a Hoover fellow since 2000. In 2011, Epstein was a recipient of the Bradley Prize for outstanding achievement.
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