Richard A. Posner, Author . Harvard Univ. $35 (464p) ISBN 978-0-674-00485-6
Posner, a federal appellate judge (he was chosen to mediate the recent Microsoft antitrust case) and legal scholar (at the University of Chicago), examines the points of connection between law and a series of related fields, including economics,...
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Richard A. Posner, Author . Princeton Univ. $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-691-09073-3
In this dense and detailed study, Posner, a U.S. Court of Appeals judge and University of Chicago law professor, departs from many recent analyses of the 2000 presidential election in finding both the election and the Supreme Court decision that...
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Richard A. Posner, Author . Harvard Univ. $29.95 (408p) ISBN 978-0-674-00633-1
Any free society thrives on public discussion, much of which is instigated by public intellectuals—journalists, academics and writers—who convey their ideas through a complex array of media. In this extensive, if idiosyncratic, study...
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Richard A. Posner, Author . Oxford Univ. $29.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-19-517813-5
While the legal prohibition on torture is among the most absolute—its status is akin to slavery and genocide in international law—many of the prominent lawyers, philosophers, political scientists and other thinkers contributing to this...
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Richard A. Posner, Author . Oxford Univ. $19.95 (171p) ISBN 978-0-19-530427-5
Posner, who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, inaugurates a new series on inalienable rights. The series is intended to stimulate debate, and Posner's work will do exactly that, drilling energetically into a set of...
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Richard A. Posner, Author . Pantheon $10.95 (116p) ISBN 978-0-375-42475-5
Not all plagiarized authors will agree with Posner's conclusion that plagiarism is an "embarrassingly second-rate" offense, "its practitioners... pathetic," and that plagiarism should remain an ethical rather than a legal offense,
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Richard A. Posner, Author . Harvard Univ. $29.95 (387p) ISBN 978-0-674-02820-3
Posner is unique in the world of American jurisprudence, a highly regarded U.S. appellate judge and a prolific and controversial writer on legal philosophy (The Little Book of Plagiarism
). Opinionated, sarcastic and argumentative as ever, Posner is
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Richard A. Posner, Author . Harvard Univ. $23.95 (346p) ISBN 978-0-674-03514-0
Posner (How Judges Think)
is uncharacteristically dry in this dense book that states flatly that we are in a recession only because we are too frightened to call it a depression. He makes a near-heroic attempt to delve into the roots of the current
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Richard A. Posner, Author Harvard University Press $27.5 (276p) ISBN 978-0-674-00080-3
By far the most legally sophisticated account of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal yet published, Posner's book brings scholarly rigor to a saga so far dominated by journalistic accounts. As Chief Judge of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Posner is...
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Richard A. Posner. Harvard Univ, $29.95 (402p) ISBN 978-0-674-28603-0
Federal appellate judge Posner (Reflections on Judging) analyzes problems in the federal judiciary and ponders how a shift in the focus of law-schools could address them. The prolific and outspoken jurist pulls back the curtain on how his colleagues
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Richard A. Posner. Harvard Univ., $35 (446p) ISBN 978-0-674-97577-4
Posner (Divergent Paths: The Academy and the Judiciary), a sitting federal judge and former law-school professor, argues that the federal judiciary is excessively backward-looking and handicapped by outdated practices and cultural norms. The first...
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Richard A. Posner, Author, Gerald Posner, Author University of Chicago Press $29.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-226-67566-4
In a wide-angled, unsentimental, compelling look at old age, Posner, an economist and federal judge, punctures the widespread belief that the elderly constitute a selfish voting bloc and that the U.S. is becoming ominously gerontified. In his...
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Gary Stanley Becker, Author, Richard A. Posner, Author . Univ. of Chicago $29 (384p) ISBN 978-0-226-04101-8
Nobel Prize–winning economist Becker (Human Capital
) and U.S. Court of Appeals judge Posner (How Judges Think
) apply economic perspectives to a wide range of contemporary issues in these unwieldy essays culled from their jointly written blog.
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