Richard Posner

Richard Posner is an American jurist, legal scholar, and economist who served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1981 to 2017. He helped establish law and economics as a major approach to legal analysis.

William Landes: William Landes is an American economist whose work applies economic analysis to law. Landes coauthored influential law-and-economics research with Posner.
Law and economics: Law and economics applies economic reasoning to legal rules, institutions, and behavior. Posner became its best-known legal advocate and helped bring it into mainstream scholarship.
Antitrust law: Antitrust law regulates conduct that restricts competition and limits competitive markets. Posner used economic reasoning to analyze competition and antitrust enforcement.
The Problems of Jurisprudence: The Problems of Jurisprudence is Posner’s book examining legal theory and the practice of judicial reasoning. It sets out Posner’s pragmatic account of law and adjudication.
Originalism: Originalism is a family of constitutional theories that gives legal force to the text’s original meaning or intent. Posner criticized originalism as an inadequate guide to practical judicial decision-making.
Frank Easterbrook: Frank Easterbrook is an American legal scholar and judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Easterbrook and Posner shaped the Seventh Circuit’s reputation for analytically rigorous opinions.
Economic analysis of law: Economic analysis of law studies how legal rules affect incentives, behavior, and resource allocation. Posner used this method to assess doctrines across many areas of law.
Copyright law: Copyright law grants creators limited exclusive rights over original works of authorship. His scholarship examined copyright as a system for balancing creative incentives and access.
How Judges Think: How Judges Think is Posner’s study of judicial decision-making and the influences on judges. The book develops his descriptive account of judging beyond formal legal doctrine.
Legal formalism: Legal formalism treats legal rules and logical deduction as sufficient to determine judicial outcomes. Posner rejected formalism’s claim that judging can be explained as mechanical rule application.

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Regulatory captureRelated: His work evaluated capture theory and its implications for the proper scope of regulation.