Richard A. Epstein
James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Director, Law and Economics Program
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773-702-9563
email: repstein@midway.uchicago.edu

Current Year Courses

• 30611 1 Torts
  The focus of this course, offered over two sequential quarters, is on the Anglo-American system (mainly judge-created) of liability for personal injury to person or property. Special stress is laid on the legal doctrines governing accidental injury, such as negligence and strict liability, assumption of risk, and the duty requirement. The rules for determining damages in personal-injury cases are discussed. Alternative theories of tort liability, e.g., moral and economic, are compared. The student s grade is based on a single final examination.
  Winter (3) 1L
  
  
• 42801 1 Antitrust Law
  This course provides an introduction to the law of antitrust. The course focuses first on the practices by which competing firms eliminate, or are alleged to eliminate, competition among themselves. The practices considered include formal cartels, price-fixing conspiracies, "conscious parallelism," trade association activities, resale price maintenance, and mergers to monopoly and other types of horizontal merger. The course then looks at the practices by which firms, either singly or in combination, exclude actual or potential competitors from their markets, by means of practices such as boycotts, tying arrangements, vertical integration, and price discrimination under the Robinson-Patman Act. Both price and non-price vertical restrictions are considered. The student's grade is based on a final examination.
  Spring (3)
  
  
• 49901 11 Independent Research
  Second- and third-year students may earn course credit by independent research under the supervision of a member of the faculty. Such projects are arranged by consultation between the student and the particular member of the faculty in whose field the proposed topic falls.
  Autumn (3)
  
  

Other courses taught include:

• Civil Procedure
• Conflicts of Law
• Constitutional Law IV: Speech And Religion
• Contracts
• Corporation Law
• Corporate Taxation
• Criminal Law
• Estate Planning
• Future Interests
• Health Law
• Historical and Intellectual Origins of Property
• Intellectual History of Property Rights
• Individual Income Taxation
• Jurisprudence
• Land Use Planning
• Legal History
• Patents
• Property
• Roman Law
• Torts
• Worker's Compensation