Richard Posner
Richard Allen Posner (born January 11, 1939 in New York City ) is a judge at the US Federal Court of Appeals and is one of the advocates of the law and economics approach, which he helped develop as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School .
Posner studied at Yale College and Harvard Law School , where he was President of the Harvard Law Review and graduated top of his class. He is a member of the Honor Society Phi Beta Kappa .
After working as a research assistant to US constitutional judge William Joseph Brennan (1962–1963), he worked for the Federal Trade Commission and as assistant to the Solicitor General and as a consultant in the President's Task Force on Communications Policy .
In 1968 he became an associate professor at Stanford Law School , and in 1969 professor at the University of Chicago Law School , where he is still a senior lecturer . President Ronald Reagan appointed him a judge on the Seventh Circuit of the US Federal Court of Appeals, which he served from 1993 to 2000. He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1982 .
Posner belongs to the Chicago School . In the course of the financial crisis from 2007 onwards , he turned to Keynesian approaches. Since 2013 Thomson Reuters has counted him among the favorites for a Nobel Prize ( Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates ) due to the number of his citations .
Publications (selection)
- 1973 Economic Analysis of Law (8th edition 2011, ISBN 978-0-7355-9442-5 )
- 1976 Antitrust Law (2nd edition 2001, ISBN 0-226-67576-9 )
- 1981 The Economics of Justice , ISBN 0-674-23526-6
- 1988 Law and Literature : A Misunderstood Relation (3rd edition 2009, ISBN 978-0-674-03246-0 )
- 1990 The Problems of Jurisprudence , ISBN 0-674-70876-8
- 1990 Cardozo: A Study in Reputation , ISBN 0-226-67556-4
- 1992 Sex and Reason , ISBN 0-674-80280-2
- 1995 Overcoming Law , ISBN 0-674-64926-5
- 1995 Aging and Old Age , ISBN 0-226-67568-8
- 1996 The Federal Courts: Challenge and Reform , ISBN 0-674-29626-5
- 1996 Law and Legal Theory in England and America , ISBN 0-19-826471-2
- 1999 The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory , ISBN 0-674-00799-9
- 2001 Frontiers of Legal Theory , ISBN 0-674-01360-3
- 2001 Breaking the Deadlock: The 2000 Presidential Election and the Courts , ISBN 0-691-09073-4
- 2003 Law, Pragmatism and Democracy , ISBN 0-674-01081-7
- 2003 Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline , ISBN 0-674-00633-X
- 2003 The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law (with William M. Landes ), ISBN 0-674-01204-6
- 2004 Catastrophe: Risk and Response , ISBN 0-19-530647-3
- 2005 Preventing Surprise Attacks: Intelligence Reform in the Wake of 9/11 , ISBN 0-7425-4947-X
- 2006 Uncertain Shield: The US Intelligence System in the Throes of Reform , ISBN 0-7425-5127-X
- 2006 Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency , ISBN 0-19-530427-6
- 2007 The Little Book of Plagiarism , ISBN 978-0-375-42475-5
- 2007 Countering Terrorism: Blurred Focus, Halting Steps , ISBN 978-0-7425-5883-0
Web links
- The Becker-Posner Blog shared weblog with Gary Becker
- biography
- Project Posner Index of Posner's decisions
- Social innovation, a series in brand eins episode 8: Maximizing prosperity , article in brand eins 08/06 about Posner.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nikolaus Piper: Hard times for ideologues. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, 20./21. March 2010, p. 38.
- ^ Richard Posner: How I Became a Keynesian. In: The New Republic, September 23, 2009.
- ↑ 2013 Predictions at Thomson Reuters (sciencewatch.com); Retrieved September 25, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Posner, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Posner, Richard Allen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer and economist, judge on the Court of Appeals |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |