Mr Posner is the most-cited legal scholar of all time, according to a 2000 study.
He has written more than 3,000 judicial opinions, hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including “The Federal Judiciary: Strengths and Weaknesses”, a scathing 2017 portrait in which readers are hard-pressed to discover many “strengths”.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. Richard Posner on the constitutional right to same-sex marriage — in 1997 versus today – Kerr ( 9/14) A response to Judge Richard Posner on Riley v. California – Baude (6/14) Richard Posner kimdir, hayatı ve biyografisi.
America’s most prolific judge thought that law was a practical, problem-solving activity. Mr Posner grabs many. He does not spare the Supreme Court. Racial discrimination is worth banning not because people have inviolable rights but because bias exacts a toll in the form of warped relationships. Steve Jobs Rahat Durmuyor. The judge’s “staggering work ethic” and “fierce intellect” start to explain his renown, Mr Segall says. In the hands of a lesser judge, his approach might bring dodgier results.Few of the nearly 200 circuit-court judges who handle appeals from America’s 94 district courts make headlines. “Law and economics” has been employed to make sense of concepts as disparate as the right to privacy, contracts and, as Mr Posner wrote in 1981, “the meaning of justice”.Idiosyncrasies attract varied critics.
In 1973 his “Economic Analysis of Law” became a foundational text of the widely influential “law and economics” movement. United States Sep 9th 2017 edition. Mr Posner reserves particular ire for the late Antonin Scalia, a “hyperconservative” justice he lambasted for his originalist jurisprudence and for neglecting his health.America’s most prolific judge thought that law was a practical, problem-solving activityIN a profession marked by pomp and pretence, Richard Posner, who is retiring from the judiciary, is a renegade. (Are they “nine of the best 10,000?
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The following year, he struck down a restrictive abortion law in Wisconsin because it was based on “spurious contentions regarding women’s health”. Michael Dorf, a leftish professor at Cornell, laments Mr Posner’s “peevish” turn in recent years. That shows the limits of a method tied to even a brilliant judge’s sense of what works. The latest Tweets from Richard posner (@posner_richard): "I hit 100000 https://t.co/ciPDYA4rRx"
Compensation is not the heart of tort law, for example: encouraging people to guard against accidents is.
Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School says Mr Posner has had a “uniquely broad influence” on the legal academy and on America’s courts. “I’ve become less conservative”, he said in 2012, “since the Republican Party started becoming goofy.” Mr Posner invalidated bans on gay marriage and inveighed against a voter-ID law in 2014.
Mr Posner’s pragmatic impulse produced some scattershot results: he has changed his tune on several issues over the years, including same-sex marriage and voter-ID rules.
In his decades as a writer and a jurist, Mr Posner, aged 78, “changed the legal landscape”, says Eric Segall, his collaborator and a law professor at Georgia State University. For Dick, as he is known to his staff, the tradition of clerks addressing their bosses as “judge” exemplifies the judiciary’s stodginess and resistance to innovation. A few months ago, he joined a ruling confirming that sex-discrimination laws protected a lesbian professor who says she was pushed out of her job.This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "Gavel down"Sign up to our free daily newsletter, The Economist todayBefore he took his seat on the Seventh Circuit, Mr Posner spent six years working in government and 12 as a law professor at Stanford and the University of Chicago. According to this approach, law is best understood as a mechanism for promoting economic efficiency writ large. Ed Whelan, a rightish commentator, calls “The Federal Judiciary” the “worst-edited book that I have ever tried to wade through” and faults the author for endorsing some infamously bad rulings as right for their time. Richard Posner haberleri en güncel gelişmeler ve son dakika haberler.