Richard A. Posner

Judges and legal scholars often talk past one another, if they have any conversation at all. Academics couch their criticisms of judicial decisions in theoretical terms, which leads many judges—at the risk of intellectual stagnation—to dismiss most academic discourse as opaque and divorced from reality. In Divergent Paths, Richard Posner turns his attention to this widening gap within the legal...

When it was first published a quarter of a century ago, Richard Posner's exposition and defense of an economic approach to antitrust law was a jeremiad against the intellectual disarray that then characterized the field. As other perspectives on antitrust law have fallen away, Posner's book has played a major role in transforming the field of antitrust law into a...

Hailed in its first edition as an outstanding work, as stimulating as it is intellectually distinguished (New York Times), Law and Literature has handily lived up to the Washington Post's prediction that the book would remain essential reading for many years to come. This third edition, extensively revised and enlarged, is the only comprehensive book-length treatment of the field. It...