Biography
Epstein was born in New York. He graduated summa cum laude from Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts in 1964. He received a B.A. in jurisprudence from Oxford in 1966 (with first-class honours). He graduated cum laude from Yale Law School with an LL.B., now a J.D. in 1968. He began his teaching career at the University of Southern California Law School.
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