Posner; Richard A.
Room: 2788F
U.S. Courthouse
Telephone: 312-435-5806
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals
Division: 7th Circuit
Mailing Address:
219 South Dearborn Street
Chicago IL 60604
Professional Experience: Research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research;
1968, law professor, Stanford University; 1969-81, law professor,
University of Chicago Law School; 1977-81, private consulting work
as president of Lexecon Inc. (a firm comprised of lawyers and economists
who perform economic and legal research and support clients in antitrust
cases and other litigation).
Legal Experience: 1962-63, clerk for the Honorable William J. Brennan,
Jr.; 1963-65, assistant to Commissioner Philip Elman, Federal Trade
Commission; 1965-67, assistant to the Solicitor General of the U.S.;
1967-68, general counsel, President Johnson's Task Force on Telecommunications
Policy.
Judicial Experience: In December of 1981, President Reagan appointed
Posner to the U.S. Court of Appeals. He served as chief judge of the
7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals from 1993-00. In 1999, Posner was
designated to act as mediator in the Microsoft antitrust case.
Publications: During law school Posner was president of the
Harvard
Law Review. He is the author of 30 books and more than 300 articles
on a variety of subjects, including the application of economics to
law, as well as 1,700 judicial opinions--nearly 1,600 of them majority.
He founded the
Journal of Legal Studies. Four of his most
recent books are:
How Judges Think, Harvard University Press,
2008;
Law & Literature, Harvard University Press, 3rd
ed., 2009;
A Failure of Capitalism, Harvard University Press,
2009; and
The Behavior of Federal Judges: A Theoretical and Empirical
Study of Rational Choice, Harvard University Press, 2012.
Panelist,
7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judges' Roundtable, Federal Bar
Association-Chicago Chapter, 2004; panelist, National Strategy Forum,
2005, speaker, Licensing Foundation, 2005; speaker, ''Judicial
Review of Immigration Court Judges,'' Chicago Bar Association
Administrative Law Judges Committee, 2008; speaker, ''Is the
U.S. Supreme Court a Political Court?'' Appellate Lawyers Association,
2008; participant, ''Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum
Adjudication,'' Chicago Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution
Society, the Chicago Bar Association Committee on Immigration &
Nationality, the Chicago Bar Foundation, the American Immigration
Lawyers Association Chicago Chapter, the Midwest Coalition for Human
Rights, and the National Immigration Justice Center, 2009; panelist, ''7th
Circuit Judges' Roundtable: What Judges Want,'' Federal
Bar Association–Chicago Chapter, 2012; speaker, ''The Challenge
of Complexity,'' 7th Circuit Bar Association and 7th Circuit
Judicial Conference annual meeting and dinner, 2012; speaker, PatCon
3 (third annual patent conference), IIT Chicago–Kent College
of Law, 2013; speaker, ''Reformation of the U.S. Copyright Act:
An Analysis and Proposal,'' Narrowing the Gap Between Law and
Progress: Perspectives on Regulation and Reform in the Digital and
D.I.Y. Age, Chicago Bar Association MCLE seminar, 2013. In addition,
Posner, along with Nobel prize-winning economist Gary S. Becker, has
created a blog located at www.becker-posner-blog.com.
Awards: 2005, Henry Friendly Medal, American Law Institute; 2005,
Thomas C. Schelling Award, Howard University's Kennedy School of Government;
honorary degree, Yale University; honorary degree, University of Pennsylvania;
honorary degree, Ghent University; Fellow, American Law Institute;
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Fellow, British Academy.
Organizations: American Law Institute; American Economic Association; Middle
Temple.
Born: January 11, 1939
Education:
Law School: Harvard Law School, 1962, LL.B., magna
cum laude
Undergraduate: Yale University, 1959, B.A., summa cum laude, Major: English,
Phi Beta Kappa
Other Information:
Posner's opinions can be found and searched at Project
Posner (www.projectposner.org).
Admitted to Bar: 1963 NY
|
