Richard Epstein is the inaugural Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law Emeritus and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1985 and has been a senior fellow of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago Medical School since 1983. He has taught courses in contracts, employment discrimination and labor law. His books include Design for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration and the Rule of Law and The Case Against the Employee Free Choice Act.