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Richard A. Posner

University of Chicago Law School

Senior Lecturer; and Judge, 7th Court of Appeal

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1.

Law School Rankings

Indiana U School of Law Symposium on the Next Generation of Law School Rankings Paper
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 21 Apr 2005
Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School
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Antitrust in the New Economy

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 106
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 11 Dec 2000
Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School
Downloads 4,867 (1,133)
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The Law and Economics of Contract Interpretation

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 229
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 08 Nov 2004
Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School
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Rational Judicial Behavior: A Statistical Study

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Rational Judicial Behavior: A Statistical Study

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 404, The Journal of Legal Analysis, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 775-831, 2009
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 29 Apr 2008
William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago Law School
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judicial behavior, judicial votes, judicial ideology, public choice, attitudinal theory, law and politics

Rational Judicial Behavior: A Statistical Study

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 28 Aug 2009
William M. Landes, Richard A. Posner and The Journal of Legal Analysis
University of Chicago Law School, University of Chicago Law School and Harvard University - John M. Olin Center for Law, Economics, and Business
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Rational, Judicial, Behavior, Statistical, Supreme Court, Landes, Posner

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Orwell Versus Huxley: Economics, Technology, Privacy, and Satire

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 89
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 19 Nov 1999
Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School
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An Economic Approach to the Law of Evidence

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 66
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 19 May 1999
Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School
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Indefinitely Renewable Copyright

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 154
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 18 Jul 2002
William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago Law School
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intellectual property, property rights

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The Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks

Forthcoming in University of Chicago Law Review
Number of pages: 108 Posted: 20 Mar 2001
Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard A. Posner and Alvin E. Roth
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Yale Law School, University of Chicago Law School and HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit
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The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change

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The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 78
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 01 Jun 1999
Richard A. Posner and Tomas Philipson
University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago
Downloads 1,314 (12,435)
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The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change

NBER Working Paper No. w7423
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 14 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2014
Tomas Philipson and Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago and University of Chicago Law School
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Citation 54

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Market Signaling of Personal Characteristics

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 87
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 15 Nov 1999
Gertrud M. Fremling and Richard A. Posner
Ph.D. in Economics, University of California at Lo and University of Chicago Law School
Downloads 1,365 (11,461)
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The Theory and Practice of Citations Analysis, with Special Reference to Law and Economics

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 83
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 15 Sep 1999
Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School
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One-Sided Contracts in Competitive Consumer Markets

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 104, pp. 827-836, 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 534
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 10 Nov 2005 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2009
Lucian A. Bebchuk and Richard A. Posner
Harvard Law School and University of Chicago Law School
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contracts, standard form contracts, contracts of adhesion, reputation, opportunism, observability

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Harmless Error

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Harmless Error

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 101
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 26 Jun 2000
William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago Law School
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Harmless Error

Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1, January 2001
Posted: 20 Mar 2001
William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago Law School

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The Management of Staff by Federal Court of Appeals Judges

U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 531, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2015-17
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 06 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2015
G. Mitu Gulati and Richard A. Posner
Duke University School of Law and University of Chicago Law School
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Federal Courts, Management of Law Clerks, Court Administration

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Why (and When) Judges Dissent: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 510
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 31 Jan 2010
Lee Epstein, William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law, University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago Law School
Downloads 861 (18,979)
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An Economic Analysis of Legal Rulemaking

Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 257-286, 1974
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 05 May 2008 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2008
Isaac Ehrlich and Richard A. Posner
State University of New York at Buffalo - Department of Economics and University of Chicago Law School
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Law Economics, Rules and Discretion, Judge-Made Rule

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The Evolution of a Legal Rule

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The Evolution of a Legal Rule

3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 02 Apr 2008
Anthony Niblett, Richard A. Posner and Andrei Shleifer
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law, University of Chicago Law School and Harvard University - Department of Economics
Downloads 745 (28,957)
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Evolution, Legal Rule, Convergence, Tort, Contract

The Evolution of a Legal Rule

NBER Working Paper No. w13856
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 19 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2008
Anthony Niblett, Richard A. Posner and Andrei Shleifer
University of Toronto - Faculty of Law, University of Chicago Law School and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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Status Signaling and the Law, with Particular Application to Sexual Harassment

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 69
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 21 May 1999
Gertrud M. Fremling and Richard A. Posner
Ph.D. in Economics, University of California at Lo and University of Chicago Law School
Downloads 757 (27,373)
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Inferring the Winning Party in the Supreme Court from the Pattern of Questioning at Oral Argument

University of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 466
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 06 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2009
Lee Epstein, William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner
Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law, University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago Law School
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Supreme Court, judicial behavior

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Theories of Economic Regulation

NBER Working Paper No. w0041
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 05 Jan 2007
Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School
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The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks

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The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks

University of Chicago Law Review, Forthcoming, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 122, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 345
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 31 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2012
Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard A. Posner and Alvin E. Roth
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Yale Law School, University of Chicago Law School and HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit
Downloads 368 (71,611)
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Judicial clerkships, judges

The New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks

NBER Working Paper No. w13213
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 09 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2010
Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard A. Posner and Alvin E. Roth
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Yale Law School, University of Chicago Law School and HBS Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit
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The Economics of Presidential Pardons and Commutations

U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 320
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 10 Jan 2007
William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago Law School
Downloads 290 (86,892)
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remissions, perogative

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Social Costs of Monopoly and Regulation

NBER Working Paper No. w0055
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 04 Jul 2004
Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School
Downloads 187 (117,358)
Citation 77

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The Private Enforcement of Law

NBER Working Paper No. w0062
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 08 Feb 2001
William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago Law School
Downloads 142 (149,530)
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The Independent Judiciary in an Interest-Group Perspective

NBER Working Paper No. w0110
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 15 Feb 2001 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2008
William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago Law School
Downloads 128 (167,413)
Citation 82

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Legal Precedent: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

NBER Working Paper No. w0146
Number of pages: 95 Posted: 18 Jun 2004
William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago Law School
Downloads 121 (143,768)
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Is the Obesity Epidemic a Public Health Problem? A Decade of Research on the Economics of Obesity

NBER Working Paper No. w14010
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 26 May 2008 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2014
Tomas Philipson and Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago and University of Chicago Law School
Downloads 116 (204,570)
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Altruism in Law and Economics

NBER Working Paper No. w0217
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 15 Feb 2001
William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago Law School
Downloads 116 (217,656)
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Adjudication as a Private Good

NBER Working Paper No. w0263
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 15 Feb 2001 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2010
William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago Law School
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Antitrust and the Not-for-Profit Sector

NBER Working Paper No. w8126
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 09 Feb 2001 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2010
Tomas Philipson and Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago and University of Chicago Law School
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Salvors, Finders, Good Samaritans and Other Rescuers: An Economic Study of Law and Altruism

NBER Working Paper No. w0227
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 29 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2010
William M. Landes and Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School and University of Chicago Law School
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Citation 19

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Antitrust in the Not-for-Profit Sector

NBER Working Paper No. w12132
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 18 May 2006 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2010
Tomas Philipson and Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago and University of Chicago Law School
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Citation 10

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Intelligence Failures: An Organizational Economics Perspective

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5186
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 01 Sep 2005
Luis Garicano and Richard A. Posner
IE Business School and University of Chicago Law School
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Organizational economics, intelligence reform, war on terrorism

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Law and Economics in Common-Law, Civil-Law, and Developing Nations

Ratio Juris, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 66-79, March 2004
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 06 Jul 2004
Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School
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Statutory Interpretation on the Bench: A Survey of Forty-Two Judges on the Federal Courts of Appeals

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 131, No. 5, p. 1298, 2018, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 673, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 635
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 14 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 17 May 2018
Abbe R. Gluck and Richard A. Posner
Yale University - Law School and University of Chicago Law School
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textualism, purposivism, statutory interpretation, legislation, judicial decisionmaking, chevron, administrative law

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Micro-Symposium: Richard Posner's 'What is Obviously Wrong with the Federal Judiciary'

20 Green Bag 2d 81 (2016)
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 28 Nov 2016
Ross E. Davies, Timothy Delaune, Swift Edgar, Jonathan Mermin, William Baude, Stephen E. Sachs, Richard A. Posner and Eric Segall
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, SUNY Cortland, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau & Pachios, University of Chicago - Law School, Duke University School of Law, University of Chicago Law School and Georgia State University College of Law
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Kelsen, Schmitt, sovereignty, positivism, originalism, Potter Stewart, Warren Burger, ejusdem, generis, eiusdem, Latin, Loeb, jargon, headings, subheadings, Blaisdell, Brown, Obergefell, Anthony Kennedy, Regan, Lujan

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An Economic Analysis of the Use of Citations in the Law

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An Economic Analysis of the Use of Citations in the Law

American Law and Economics Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 381-406, 2000
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School

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An Economic Analysis of the Use of Citations in the Law

American Law and Economics Review, Vol. 2, Fall 2000
Posted: 07 Oct 2004
Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School

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Cost-Benefit Analysis: Definition, Justification, and Comment on Conference Papers

Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2, Pt. 2, June 2000
Posted: 24 Jan 2001
Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School

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Antitrust Law, by Richard a. Posner

ANTITRUST LAW, by Richard A. Posner, University of Chicago Press, Forthcoming
Posted: 08 Jan 2001
Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School

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Is the Ninth Circuit Too Large? A Statistical Study of Judicial Quality

Journal of Legal Studies, Pt. 1, Vol. 29, No. 2, June 2000
Posted: 02 Aug 2000
Richard A. Posner
University of Chicago Law School

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Creating and Enforcing Norms, with Special Reference to Sanctions

International Review of Law and Economics, Vol. 19, Issue 3, September 1999
Posted: 12 May 2000
Richard A. Posner and Eric Bennett Rasmusen
University of Chicago Law School and Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Business Economics & Public Policy

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