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Posner, Richard Allen

Born 1939 in New York, NY

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Nominated by Ronald Reagan on October 27, 1981, to a seat vacated by Philip Willis Tone. Confirmed by the Senate on November 24, 1981, and received commission on December 1, 1981. Served as chief judge, 1993-2000. Service terminated on September 2, 2017, due to retirement.

Education:
Yale College, A.B., 1959
Harvard Law School, LL.B., 1962

Professional Career:

Law clerk, Hon. William J. Brennan, Jr., Supreme Court of the United States, 1962-1963
Legal assistant to the commissioner, Federal Trade Commission, 1963-1965
Assistant to the solicitor general, U.S. Department of Justice, 1965-1967
General counsel, President's Task Force on Communications, 1967-1968
Associate professor, Stanford Law School, 1968-1969
Faculty, University of Chicago Law School, 1969-
Member, Judicial Conference of the United States, 1994-2000

Bibliography

Domnarski, William. Richard Posner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

________. “The Correspondence of Henry Friendly and Richard A. Posner, 1982-86.” American Journal of Legal History, vol. 51, no. 3 (2011): 395-416.

Harcourt, Bernard E. “Judge Richard Posner on Civil Liberties: Pragmatic Authoritarian Libertarian.” University of Chicago Law Review, vol. 74 (2007): 1723-38.

Margolis, Stephen E. “The Profits of Infringement: Richard Posner v. Learned Hand.” Berkley Technology Law Journal, vol. 22, no. 4 (Fall 2007): 1521-64.

Minda, Gary. “The Lawyer-Economist at Chicago: Richard A. Posner and the Economic Analysis of Law.” Ohio State Law Journal, vol. 39, no. 3 (1978): 439-75.

Shapiro, Ian. “Richard Posner’s Praxis.” Ohio State Law Review, vol. 48, no. 4 (1987): 999-1046.

Ursin, Edmund. “How Great Judges Think: Judges Richard Posner, Henry Friendly, and Roger Trainor on Judicial Lawmaking.” Buffalo Law Review, vol. 57, no. 4 (Jul. 2009): 1267-360.

Wright, R. George. “Judge Richard Posner on the Scope of the Free Speech Clause.” Cumberland Law Review, vol. 21, no. 2 (1990-1991): 225-44.

Tributes: New York University Annual Survey of American Law, vol. 61, no. 1 (2005): 1-44.

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