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Richard A. Posner is probably the leading scholar in the rapidly growing field of the economics of law; he is also an extremely lucid writer. In th...

A Guide to America's Sex Laws is the first concise compendium of the nation's sex laws. It summarizes the laws regulating personal sexual activity,...

Sex, although considered by many in our culture the quintessential private activity, is blanketed by a large number and variety of laws. This text ...

When it was first published a quarter of a century ago, Richard A. Posner's exposition and defence of an economic approach to antitrust law was a j...

What makes a great judge? How are reputations forged? Why do some reputations endure, while others crumble? And how can we know whether a reputatio...

The most exciting development in legal thinking since World War II has been the growth of interdisciplinary legal studies—the application of the so...

Like other dangerous but pleasurable activities, such as downhill skiing and mountain climbing, engaging in unprotected sex implicitly involves the...

The federal courts are the world’s most powerful judiciary and a vital element of the American political system. In recent decades, these courts ha...

In this book, one of our country’s most distinguished scholar-judges shares with us his vision of the law. For the past two thousand years, the phi...

Ambitious legal thinkers have become mesmerized by moral philosophy, believing that great figures in the philosophical tradition hold the keys to u...

President Bill Clinton’s year of crisis, which began when his affair with Monica Lewinsky hit the front pages in January 1998, engendered a host of...

Legal theory must become more factual and empirical and less conceptual and polemical, Richard Posner argues in this wide-ranging new book. The top...

Judges and legal scholars talk past one another, if they have any conversation at all. Academics couch their criticisms of judicial decisions in th...

A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Richard A. Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startl...

Hailed in its first edition as an “outstanding work, as stimulating as it is intellectually distinguished” (New York Times), Law and Literature has...

Judges play a central role in the American legal system, but their behavior as decision-makers is not well understood, even among themselves. The s...

In Reflections on Judging, Richard Posner distills the experience of his thirty-one years as a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the ...