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Richard Allen Posner ( / ˈpoʊznər /; born January 11, 1939) is an American legal scholar who served as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1981 to 2017. [1] A senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, Posner was identified by The Journal of Legal Studies as the most-cited legal ...
Sep 11, 2017 · Sept. 11, 2017. WASHINGTON — Judge Richard A. Posner, whose restless intellect, withering candor and superhuman output made him among the most provocative figures in American law in the last ...
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Mar 29, 2022 · When Judge Richard Posner, who remains the most-cited legal scholar on record, abruptly retired from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago in September 2017, the legal world was stunned.
Aug 20, 2009 · August 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. He has authored influential and provocative works that span a vast swath of law and life, ranging from antitrust ...
Oct. 7, 2016. RICHARD POSNER. By William Domnarski. 293 pp. Oxford University Press. $29.95. Once in every great while, nature and nurture combine in a single person the qualities of erratic ...
Judge Richard A. Posner, LL.B. ’62, is a fierce iconoclast who adorns his chambers with icons. In one corner are photographs of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Judge Henry Friendly. In the opposite corner is one of Justice Benjamin Cardozo. In Posner’s words, Holmes is “the most illustrious figure in the history of American law.”.
Richard A. Posner. Senior Lecturer in Law (retired) Following his graduation from Harvard Law School, Judge Posner clerked for Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. From 1963 to 1965, he was an assistant to Commissioner Philip Elman of the Federal Trade Commission. For the next two years, he was an assistant to the solicitor general of the United States.
