Rate My Professor Richard Posner

In 1981, Posner was appointed Circuit Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, serving as Chief Judge from 1993 to 2000 and retiring in 2017, while continuing as Senior Lecturer at Chicago Law School. His research specializations encompass economic analysis of law, antitrust, law and economics, jurisprudence, law and literature, administrative law, regulated industries, and more. Posner authored over 40 books, including Economic Analysis of Law (9th ed., 2014), Law and Literature (3rd ed., 2009), The Problems of Jurisprudence (1990), Overcoming Law (1995), How Judges Think (2008), and Reflections on Judging (2013). He founded and edited the Journal of Legal Studies and co-edited the American Law and Economics Review. Among his major awards are the Ronald H. Coase Medal from the American Law and Economics Association (2010), Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (2018), Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Award in Law (1994), Learned Hand Medal for Excellence in Federal Jurisprudence (2005), and honorary degrees from universities including Yale, Northwestern, and Georgetown. Posner's pioneering scholarship has profoundly influenced law and economics, antitrust policy, judicial behavior studies, and legal theory.