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This installment of my “Taking Posner Seriously” series is devoted to Richard A. Posner’s excellent essay “A Political Court“, which was published in the fall of 2005 as the Foreward to the Harvard Law Review‘s special issue on the 2004 … Continue reading →

Originally posted on prior probability:
Greg Byrne is the Athletics Director at the University of Alabama, while Nate Oats is the head coach of the University of Alabama’s basketball team. Two of the “student-athletes” on their squad were involved in…

That is the topic of this new paper by Alex Edmans, a finance professor and the managing editor of the prestigious Review of Finance, the official publication of the European Finance Association. In a nutshell, Professor Edmans explains why he … Continue reading →

Toward the end of my previous Posner post, which highlighted Oliver Wendell Holmes’s three-paragraph dissent in Lochner v. New York, I shouted out Sex and Reason (1992), perhaps Richard A. Posner’s most controversial work. In short, I was so impressed … Continue reading →

According to this report, a Republican State Senator by the name of Jason Brodeur (pictured below next to the swastica symbol), who represents Lake Mary in Central Florida, has drafted a draconian bill (see here) that would require bloggers who … Continue reading →

I wish every profession were organized like Major League Baseball: spring training (February and March), the regular season (April to September), the playoffs (October), and the off-season or winter break (November to January). In any case, I will take a … Continue reading →

With this post I shall bring my chapter-by-chapter review of Rule of Law by Tom Bingham to a close. In the epilogue to his book, Judge Bingham concludes by describing “The Allegory of Good Government” (pictured in part above), a … Continue reading →

The last chapter of Tom Bingham’s book Rule of Law (Chapter 12) explores a fascinating constitutional anomaly, at least in Britain where the Parliament is the ultimate sovereign. On the one hand, the rule of law at a minimum means … Continue reading →

I am lumping together my review of Chapters 9, 10, and 11 of Rule of Law by Tom Bingham because all three chapters deal with one aspect or another of today’s post-9/11 world, a world in which the rule of … Continue reading →