“richard a posner”

In this shocking work, Posner reveals to an unsuspecting public that catastrophic risks are much greater than is commonly appreciated.Catastrophic risks are much greater than is commonly appreciated. Collision with an asteroid, runaway global warming, voraciously replicating nanomachines, a pandemic... More

In this book, one of our country's most distinguished scholar judges shares with us his vision of the law. For the past thousand years, the philosophy of law has been dominated by two rival doctrines. One contends that the law is more than politics and yields, in the hands of skillful judges, correc... More

Countering Terrorism evaluates the successes and failures of recent efforts by the U.S. government to reform our intelligence infrastructure. Posner challenges the over-politicized, now conventional wisdom that these reforms have threatened our civil rights and liberties.... More

Provocative, insightful, and extraordinary for its clarity and forthrightness, "The Little Book of Plagiarism" is an analytical tour de force in a small package, the work of "one of the top 20 legal thinkers in America" (Legal Affairs), a distinguished jurist renowned for his adventuresome intellect... More

Many of the measures taken by the Bush administration since 9/11 have sparkedheated protests. Judge Richard A. Posner offers a cogent and elegant responseto these protests, arguing that personal liberty must be balanced with publicsafety in the face of grave national danger.Eavesdropping on the phon... More

law and legal theory is a comparative analysis of the English and American legal systems at the level of theory, doctrine, and operation.Richard Posner is famous throughout the legal world for his pioneering and controversial espousal of the belief that the study of law cannot be divorced from the s... More

From the book: Ivan Karamazov said that if God does not exist everything is permitted, and traditional legal thinkers are likely to say that if legalism (legal formalism, orthodox legal reasoning, a "government of laws not men," the "rule of law" as celebrated in the loftiest "Law Day" rhetoric, and... More

The main purpose of the book is to demonstrate the power and promise of economics in illuminating areas of social behavior not ordinarily thought of as economic.Richard A. Posner is probably the leading scholar in the rapidly growing field of the economics of law; he is also an extremely lucid write... More

Posner's rational choice theory is the first comprehensive approach to sexuality and its social controls. Drawing on the fields of biology, law, history, religion, and economics, this sweeping study examines societies from ancient Greece to today's Sweden and issues from incest taboos and date rape ... More

Many great features make this text an ideal option for your classroom: - maintains its standing as the preeminent work in the field, covering the legal-economic perspective on all key areas, from common law to the Constitution- presents the expertise of a highly distinguished author, pioneer in law ... More