Richard Posner
FameRank: 6

"Richard Allen Posner" is an American jurist, legal theorist, and economist. He is currently a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. He is a leading figure in the field of law and economics, and was identified by The Journal of Legal Studies as the Citation impact/most cited legal scholar of the 20th century.

Posner is the author of nearly 40 books on jurisprudence, economics, and several other topics, including Economic Analysis of Law, The Economics of Justice, The Problems of Jurisprudence, Sex and Reason, Law, Pragmatism and Democracy, and The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy. Posner has generally been identified as being politically conservative; however, in recent years he has distanced himself from the positions of the Republican party.

If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous judges! More Richard Posner on Wikipedia.

Were too deep-seated to be bridged.

To say he's extremely well regarded is an understatement.

Should not have rounded this number off to below $10 million, which reduced the length of the defendants' sentences.

Indianapolis does not claim to be concerned with protecting highway safety against drivers high on drugs, ... Its program of drug roadblocks belongs to the genre of general programs of surveillance which invade privacy wholesale in order to discover evidence of crime.

The judge observed realistically that most Chicagoans have some awareness of the association between Capone and Cicero.

I regret to announce the end of my efforts to mediate the Microsoft antitrust case.