This talk was the keynote address of a conference held April 4, 2008, at the University of Chicago Law School, entitled "Contested Commodities: Reframing the Debate on Financial Incentives in the Supply of Genetic Materials." Richard Epstein is James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Director of the Law and Economics Program at the University of Chicago Law School. He was introduced by Michele Goodwin, Visiting Professor of Law and the organizer of the conference.
