Renowned legal scholar to discuss antitrust

Oct. 27, 2006 -- The Law School's Public Interest Law and Policy Speakers Series, in conjunction with the Federalist Society and the Assembly Series, will present Richard Epstein at 3 p.m. Tuesday, October 31, in the Anheuser Busch Moot Courtroom (Room 310). The lecture is free and open to the public.

The well-known libertarian and influential legal scholar will discuss the question, "Has Modern Complex Litigation Outgrown the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures? The Case of Antitrust."

Epstein, the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, is widely considered one of the most influential legal voices of our time. His perspectives often challenge mainstream viewpoints, and are articulated in several books and a large collection of articles on a broad range of legal and interdisciplinary subjects. His teaching has been similarly broad in scope. Some of his published works include Principles for a Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty with the Common Good, Mortal Peril: Our Inalienable Rights to Health Care, Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain, and Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism.

In addition to teaching law at the University of Chicago, he also directs the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, and is a senior fellow of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at its medical school. Epstein received a bachelor's degree from Columbia College as well as from Oxford University, and a law degree from Yale University.

The Anheuser Busch Moot Courtroom is located on the Danforth Campus, just south of the Athletic Complex at the end of Olympian Way. For more information, please call (314) 935-6419 or consult the Law School Web site at law.wustl.edu/clinicaled/index.asp?ID=1058.