Ted Frank is Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Director of the AEI Liability Project.  Frank manages the Institute's research in and studies liability reform: products liability (including pharmaceuticals and asbestos), class actions and civil procedure, corporate regulation, antitrust and patent litigation, lifestyle litigation, medical malpractice, and judicial selection. Before joining AEI in 2005, Frank was a litigator in private practice; his litigation experience includes defending the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election against an ACLU constitutional challenge; Vioxx and automobile products liability cases; class action defense; and antitrust and patent cases. Frank has also argued successfully in front of the Ninth Circuit multiple times.

Frank has written for law reviews, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and National Review Online, and has spoken or been interviewed on NPR, BBC, C-SPAN, and Fox News.   Frank sits on the Federalist Society’s Litigation Practice Group Executive Committee.

Frank received his J.D. with high honors from The Law School at The University of Chicago in 1994, where he was Order of the Coif and served on the law review, and clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.  He is a regular contributor to the liability reform weblog Overlawyered.com.

Richard A. 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. Prior to joining the University of Chicago Law School faculty, he taught law at the University of Southern California from 1968 to 1972. He has been 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, also since 1983. He served as editor of the Journal of Legal Studies from 1981 to 1991, and of the Journal of Law and Economics from 1991-2001. At present he is a director of the John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School.

Professor Epstein has written numerous articles on a wide range of legal and interdisciplinary subjects. His books include Skepticism and Freedom: A Modern Case for Classical Liberalism (University of Chicago, 2003), Cases and Materials on Torts (Aspen Law & Business; 7th ed. 2000), and Modern Products Liability Law (Greenwood Press, 1980).