Yesterday, my colleague and friend Orin Kerr (@OrinKerr), a law professor at U.C. Berkeley, posted a series of melancholic tweets in honor of my intellectual mentor Richard Posner. As it happens, yours truly had the honor of meeting Judge Posner, who I consider to be the greatest legal scholar of our time, on several occasions. (The most recent time was on 6 November 2015 at the annual Loyola Chicago Constitutional Law Colloquium; see picture below.) In any case, one of Professor Kerr’s tweets (see here) has inspired me to share below the links to my multi-part tribute to some of Posner’s works and ideas, which I wrote up and posted on this blog earlier this year.
- What is Richard Posner’s legacy? (4 February)
- Taking Posner Seriously (9 February)
- Taking Posner Seriously: Law & Literature (21 February)
- Taking Posner Seriously: Lochner v. New York (2 March)
- Taking Posner Seriously: Sex and Reason (8 March)
- Taking Posner Seriously: Politics as Law (10 March)
PS: I will have much more to say about Judge Posner and his legacy, including his magnum opus Economic Analysis of Law, in 2024. In the meantime, I will post my review of Richard Darnton’s latest book, The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789, in my next post.
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