Richard Allen Epstein

Torts

Bargaining with the State

How to Revive Constitutional Protection For Private Property (Inalienable Rights)

Supreme Neglect

This casebook for law students presents a variety of cases and materials that reflect the alternative visions of tort law as they developed in the 19th and 20th centuries. Organized into 22 chapters, the cases illustrate such topics as proof of negligence, multiple tortfeasors, affirmative duties, modern products liability law, and economic harms. Tort liability in cyberspace--including trespass to chattels, conversion, and defamation--is given extensive treatment in the eighth edition. Editor Epstein teaches law at the U. of Chicago. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Cases and Materials on Torts

Richard A. Epstein traces the Old Court's treatment of federalism and economic liberty and shows how early 20th-century progressives prevailed eventually in undermining those principles, supplanting competitive markets with government-created cartels and monopolies

How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution

A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism (Studies in Law and Economics)

Skepticism and Freedom

Reconciling Individual Liberty with the Common Good

Principles for a Free Society

Michael S. Greve

Moreover, states have powerful incentives to permit domestic industries to exploit outsiders, or even to facilitate such practices. High-profile antitrust conflicts, from the prosecution of Microsoft in state, national, and international forums to the transatlantic disagreement over the European Union's merger policy, illustrate the difficulties. Possible solutions to these problems range from improved intergovernmental cooperation, to direct policy harmonization, to a new regime of "structured competition" in antitrust policy modeled on U.S. corporation law.

Antitrust Jurisdiction in the Global Economy

Competition Laws in Conflict

Richard Allen EPSTEIN

If legal scholar Richard Epstein is right, then the New Deal is wrong, if not unconstitutional. Epstein develops a coherent normative theory that permits us to distinguish between permissible takings for public use and impermissible ones. He then examines a wide range of government regulations and taxes under a single comprehensive theory.

Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain

Takings

Too many laws, too many lawyers--that's the necessary consequence of a complex society, or so conventional wisdom has it. Countless pundits insist that any call for legal simplification smacks of nostalgia, sentimentality, or naivete. But the conventional view, the noted legal scholar Richard Epstein tells us, has it exactly backward. The richer texture of modern society allows for more individual freedom and choice. And it allows us to organize a comprehensive legal order capable of meeting the technological and social challenges of today on the basis of just six core principles. In this book, Epstein demonstrates how. The first four rules, which regulate human interactions in ordinary social life, concern the autonomy of the individual, property, contract, and tort. Taken together these rules establish and protect consistent entitlements over all resources, both human and natural. These rules are backstopped by two more rules that permit forced exchanges on payment of just compensation when private or public necessity so dictates. Epstein then uses these six building blocks to clarify many intractable problems in the modern legal landscape. His discussion of employment contracts explains the hidden virtues of contracts at will and exposes the crippling weaknesses of laws regarding collective bargaining, unjust dismissal, employer discrimination, and comparable worth. And his analysis shows how laws governing liability for products and professional services, corporate transactions, and environmental protection have generated unnecessary social strife and economic dislocation by violating these basic principles. Simple Rules for a Complex World offers a sophisticated agenda for comprehensive social reform that undoes much of the mischief of the modern regulatory state. At a time when most Americans have come to distrust and fear government at all levels, Epstein shows how a consistent application of economic and political theory allows us to steer a middle path between too much and too little.

Richard Allen Epstein

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