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The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory, by Richard A. Posner. Cambridge (MA): The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. 320 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2000

Ben A. Rich
Affiliation:
Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, and the Program in Health Care Ethics, Humanities and Law at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver

Abstract

In his professional life, Richard Posner is addressed as “Your Honor,” inasmuch as he is Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He is also a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. Finally, he is a prolific author of books and articles in scholarly journals in which he expounds at length and with copious footnotes his particular views of jurisprudence and public policy. One of his frequent intellectual adversaries, legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin, wryly described Judge Posner as “the lazy judge who writes a book before breakfast, decides several cases before noon, teaches all afternoon at the Chicago Law School, and performs brain surgery after dinner.”

Type
CQ REVIEW
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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