Richard Epstein on Property Rights, Law and Economics
Jon Hartley and Richard Epstein discuss Richard’s career as a legal scholar, the takings clause, state monopoly power, Richard’s property-driven theory of constitutional interpretation (how it contrasts with the originalism of Antonin Scalia and Robert Bork as well as living constitution theories), the Coase theorem, and classical liberalism versus anarcho-capitalism.
Constitutionalism
Epstein & Yoo: Amicus Brief in Supreme Court of Maryland
Civitas Senior Research Fellows Richard Epstein and John Yoo, alongside the Mountain States Legal Foundation, filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court of Maryland.
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Religious Exemptions?: What the Free Exercise Clause Means
A conversation among three religious liberty scholars on the Free Exercise Clause’s original meaning.
The American Revolutions of 1776
America's founding was animated by both the spirit of liberty and the spirit of religion — a philosophical and practical achievement worth understanding and attempting to recover today.
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Making Sense of the Court's Establishment Clause Doctrine
Chapman and McConnell acknowledge the judicial excesses of older caselaw and orient the doctrine toward a collection of historically sensitive second-best arrangements looking forward.
Civitas Conversations: Is the Court Appeasing the Trump Administration?
A Conversation with Jonathan Adler about judicial overreach v. judicial limits.
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