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Richard Allen Posner (/ ˈ p oʊ z n ər /; 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.
He is an Honorary Bencher of the Inner Temple and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, and was also the President of the American Law and Economics Association from 1995 to 1996 and the honorary President of the Bentham Club of University College, London, for 1998.
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...
Judge Richard Posner, probably the world’s most influential legal thinker over the last half-century, retired from the federal bench on Saturday. If a Nobel Prize were to be given in law, he would be the first to receive it, solely on the basis of his academic contributions.
Sep 11, 2017 · Retiring abruptly after 35 years on the bench, Judge Richard A. Posner says he will devote himself to helping people who cannot afford lawyers.
Jan 1, 2023 · Richard A. Posner was the most important actor in the transformation from “law and economics” to an “economic analysis of law”. Posner applied Chicago price theory to the analysis of law and legal rules.
Aug 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.
