Richard Posner
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.78 (580 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199332312 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He is the author of three previous books on federal judges, as well as a book on the nature of practicing law. William Domnarski has been a lawyer and legal writer for 30 years. in English from the University of California, Riverside.. He has a JD from the University of Connecticut School of Law and a Ph.D
"The author, a longtime attorney and legal writer, intrepidly embraces a daunting subject in this fine-tuned, well-researched intellectual biography of Richard PosnerAn indispensable read for fans of Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein's Nudge"--Library Journal
Richard Posner is a comprehensive and accessible account of a unique judge who, despite never having sat on the Supreme Court, has nevertheless dominated the way law is understood in contemporary America.. In addition, Domnarski was able to interview and correspond with more than two hundred people Posner has known, worked with, or gone to school with over the course of his career, from grade school to the present day. Domnarski has had access to Posner himself and to Posner's extensive archive at the University of Chicago. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the principal exponent of the enormously influential law and economics movement, he writes provocative books as a public intellectual, receives frequent media attention, and has been at the center of some very high-profile legal spats. The list includes among others members of the Harvard Law Review, colleagues at the University of Chicago, former law clerks over Posner's more than thirty years on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and even other judges from that court. In
@SCOTUSPlaces said A Must Read for #AppellateTwitter. Judges are generally pretty boring. They don't typically live exciting lives because exciting lives don't typically lead to judgeships. It's even worse for appellate judges, who don't even have the excitement, such as it is, of presiding over dramatic trials. Their main output as judges consists of written opinions, which inspire excitement among relatively few people. So the judicial biographer starts with a challenging task, one th. Somewhat of a 'marble man', but an important legal figure. I had not considered just how intimidating a figure Richard Posner really is until I sat down to write this review. I am apparently to be the first to review this biography and I am sitting here knowing that Posner will most certainly read it even though he is not the author. I’ve criticized and praised many authors without wondering if they might actually read what I wrote or even if I strongly suspected that the person will r. An Important Intellectual biography of Judge Richard Posner Ronald H. Clark This is quite simply a remarkable book. Richard Posner, from his perch (since 1981) on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, and his position as Senior Lecturer at the Law School of the University of Chicago (since 1969), has become one of our leading "public intellectuals." Having written over 43 books, and some five hundred articles, and being frequently designated as the most cited author for his a