You can see exactly this bias at work in the work of noted legal theorist Richard Epstein.

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That's the provocative view of Richard Epstein, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and sometime consultant to the drug industry.

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But even if Employee Free Choice becomes law, it is unlikely on its own to indicate any long-term reversal in the decline of unionism, reckons Richard Epstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago who opposes the bill.

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Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, the University of Chicago, The Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution, and a visiting professor at New York University Law School.

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Richard A. Epstein is the James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law, The University of Chicago, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution, and a visiting law professor at New York University Law School.

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"The one-page agreement that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences enters into with the recipients of Oscar awards raises enough tricky questions of property and contract law to pique the interest of property and contract scholars, " says Richard A. Epstein, a law professor at the University of Chicago.

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