Richard A Posner: 15 books

Book cover of Antitrust Law, Second Edition
by Richard A. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009

When it was first published a quarter of a century ago, Richard Posner's exposition and defense of an economic approach to antitrust law was a jeremiad against the intellectual disarray that then characterized the field. As other perspectives on antitrust law have fallen away, Posner's book has played...
Book cover of Not a Suicide Pact

Not a Suicide Pact

The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency

by Richard A. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006

Eavesdropping on the phone calls of U.S. citizens; demands by the FBI for records of library borrowings; establishment of military tribunals to try suspected terrorists, including U.S. citizens--many of the measures taken by the Bush administration since 9/11 have sparked heated protests. In Not a...
Book cover of Reflections on Judging
by Richard A. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013

For Richard Posner, legal formalism and formalist judges--notably Antonin Scalia--present the main obstacles to coping with the dizzying pace of technological advance. Posner calls for legal realism--gathering facts, considering context, and reaching a sensible conclusion that inflicts little collateral damage on other areas of the law.
Book cover of Divergent Paths

Divergent Paths

The Academy and the Judiciary

by Richard A. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016

Judges and legal scholars talk past one another, if they have any conversation at all. Academics criticize judicial decisions in theoretical terms, which leads many judges to dismiss academic discourse as divorced from reality. Richard Posner reflects on the causes and consequences of this widening gap and what can be done to close it.
Book cover of THE CRISIS OF CAPITALIST DEMOCRACY
by Richard A. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010

Judge Posner continues to react to the current economic crisis and reflect upon the impact on our views and reliance on capitalism. Posner helps non-technical readers understand business-cycle and financial economics, and financial and governmental institutions, practices, and transactions, while maintaining a neutrality impossible for persons professionally committed to one theory or another.
Book cover of What Caused the Financial Crisis
by Richard A. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011

The deflation of the subprime mortgage bubble in 2006-7 is widely agreed to have been the immediate cause of the collapse of the financial sector in 2008. Consequently, one might think that uncovering the origins of subprime lending would make the root causes of the crisis obvious. That is essentially...
Book cover of Shylock on Trial

Shylock on Trial

The Appellate Briefs

by Richard A. Posner, Charles Fried
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013

William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law, his plays rich in its terms, settings, and thought processes. In Shylock on Trial: The Appellate Briefs, the Hon. Richard A. Posner and Charles Fried rule on Shakespeare’s classic drama The Merchant of Venice. Framed as a decision argued by...
Book cover of How Judges Think
by Richard A. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010

A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases.
Book cover of Catastrophe

Catastrophe

Risk and Response

by Richard A. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2004

Catastrophic risks are much greater than is commonly appreciated. Collision with an asteroid, runaway global warming, voraciously replicating nanomachines, a pandemic of gene-spliced smallpox launched by bioterrorists, and a world-ending accident in a high-energy particle accelerator, are among the...
Book cover of Ethics, Literature, and Theory

Ethics, Literature, and Theory

An Introductory Reader

by Dudley Barlow, Orson Scott Card, Anthony Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2005

Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of...
Book cover of Remaking Domestic Intelligence
by Richard A. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013

The author reveals the dangerous weaknesses undermining domestic intelligence in the United States and tells why a new national security service should not be part of the FBI. He explains the need for a new domestic intelligence agency, modeled on the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and lodged in the Department of Homeland Security.
Book cover of Policy and Pragmatism in the Conflict of Laws
by Michael J. Whincop, Mary Keyes, Richard A. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018

This title was first published in 2001. After languishing for decades in the domains of rigid doctrinalism and confusing theory, the conflict of laws is increasingly being recognized as an important area of law to a global community. To demonstrate its importance, Michael Whincop and Mary Keyes transcend...
Book cover of The Behavior of Federal Judges

The Behavior of Federal Judges

a theoretical and empirical study of rational choice

by Lee Epstein, William M Landes, Richard A Posner
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013

Federal judges are not just robots or politicians in robes, yet their behavior is not well understood, even among themselves. Using statistical methods, a political scientist, an economist, and a judge construct a unified theory of judicial decision-making to dispel the mystery of how decisions from district courts to the Supreme Court are made.
Book cover of The Little Book of Plagiarism
by Richard A. Posner
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009

A concise, lively, and bracing exploration of an issue bedeviling our cultural landscape–plagiarism in literature, academia, music, art, and film–by one of our most influential and controversial legal scholars. Best-selling novelists J. K. Rowling and Dan Brown, popular historians Doris Kearns...
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