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Sep 9, 2017 · Mr Posner thinks most judges are lousy writers who rely unduly on their clerks and are “stuck in the past”, paying obeisance to fusty traditions. He does not spare the Supreme Court.
Richard Allen Posner (/ ˈ p oʊ z n ər /; born January 11, 1939) is an American legal scholar and retired federal judge who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1981 to 2017. [1]
Aug 20, 2009 · Over the past four decades, Judge Richard A. Posner, a judge of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and longtime member of the Law School faculty, has built a reputation as one of the nation’s foremost polymaths.
Jan 16, 2023 · A law professor, public intellectual, and federal appellate judge, Posner was a giant. He wrote some sixty books, on topics ranging from sex to asteroid strikes. He issued more than 3,000 judicial decisions (often writing out full opinions in an evening).
Jun 6, 2009 · Mr Posner: I think empathy, which means the ability to understand how other people feel, is a valid and important attribute of a judge, because his decisions affect people, often profoundly ...
Apr 17, 2008 · In his new book, How Judges Think, Seventh Circuit judge Richard A. Posner states that he aims to offer a "cogent, unified, realistic, and appropriately eclectic account of how judges actually arrive at their decisions in nonroutine cases."
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In Overcoming Law, 1 Richard Posner has put together a very good book indeed. This addition to his numerous works is a sprawling mélange of book reviews and other essays that have appeared elsewhere, combined with several important essays that have not previously been published.
