Speaker biographies
Richard Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1972. He has also been the Peter and Kirstin Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution since 2000, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1985, and a senior fellow of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago Medical School since 1983. At present he is a director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School. His books include Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism (University of Chicago, 2003), Cases and Materials on Torts (Aspen Law & Business, 8th ed., 2004), Torts (Aspen Law & Business, 1999), Principles for a Free Society: Reconciling Individual Liberty with the Common Good (Perseus Books, 1998), Mortal Peril: Our Inalienable Rights to Health Care? (Addison-Wesley, 1997), Simple Rules for a Complex World (Harvard, 1995), Bargaining with the State (Princeton, 1993), Forbidden Grounds: The Case against Employment Discrimination Laws (Harvard, 1992), Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain (Harvard, 1985), and Modern Products Liability Law (Greenwood Press, 1980). Professor Epstein has had a long interest in the questions of federalism and constitutional structure, as well as many of the substantive areas of the law (torts, antitrust, health-care telecommunications) in which the issues of preemption are most salient.
Ted Frank is a resident fellow at AEI and director of the AEI Liability Project. Mr. Frank manages the Institute’s research in products liability (including pharmaceuticals and asbestos), medical malpractice, class actions, civil procedure, corporate regulation, antitrust and patent litigation, lifestyle litigation, and judicial selection. Before joining AEI, Mr. Frank was a litigator from 1995–2005. His litigation experience includes defending the use of punch card ballots in the California gubernatorial recall election against an ACLU constitutional challenge; Vioxx and automobile products liability cases; class action defense; and antitrust and patent cases. He has also argued successfully in front of the Ninth Circuit multiple times, including the first reported victory against the Department of Justice in the forty-year history of the Johnson Act, the statute regulating gambling devices. Mr. Frank has written for law reviews, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and National Review Online, and has appeared on National Public Radio, BBC, C-SPAN, and Fox News. Mr. Frank also clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a regular contributor to the liability reform weblogs PointOfLaw.com and Overlawyered.com.
Jeffrey Rosen is a professor of law at George Washington University Law School and the legal affairs editor of The New Republic. His new book, The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America (Times Books, 2007), is the companion book to the upcoming PBS series of the same name on the Supreme Court. He is also the author of The Most Democratic Branch (Oxford University Press, 2006), The Naked Crowd (Random House, 2004), and The Unwanted Gaze (Vintage, 2001). His essays and commentaries have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker— where he has been a staff writer—and on National Public Radio. The Chicago Tribune named him one of the ten best magazine journalists in America and the L.A. Times called him “the nation’s most widely read and influential legal commentator.”
Dr. Sally Satel is a resident scholar at AEI and the staff psychiatrist at the Oasis Clinic in Washington, D.C. She serves on the advisory committee of the Center for Mental Health Services of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Dr. Satel was an assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale University from 1988 to 1993. From 1993 to 1994 she was a policy fellow with the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee. She has written widely in academic journals on topics in psychiatry and medicine, and has published articles on cultural aspects of medicine and science in numerous magazines and journals. Dr. Satel is author of Drug Treatment: The Case for Coercion (AEI Press, 1999) and PC, M.D.: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine (Basic Books, 2001), and is coauthor, with Christina Hoff Sommers, of One Nation under Therapy (St. Martin’s Press, 2005).
Eugene Volokh teaches free speech law, criminal law, copyright law, the law of government and religion, and a seminar on firearms regulation policy at UCLA Law School. Before coming to UCLA, he clerked for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court and for Judge Alex Kozinski on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He has written over fifty law review articles on various topics, mostly in constitutional law. He is a member of the the American Law Institute and is the founder and coauthor of The Volokh Conspiracy, a blog that gets over 20,000 unique visitors per weekday.
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