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How Judges Think.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-JAN-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: How Judges Think.(Book review)

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How Judges Think

Richard A. Posner

Harvard University Press

www.hup.harvard.edu

400pp., $29.95

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As a former law school professor at the University of Chicago, Richard Posner, who sits on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, comes naturally to his role as a prolific legal theorist. Best known for his passion for applying the science of economics to legal analysis, Posner is an enigma: a former law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan with a conservative bent on social issues who views himself as a pragmatist in the application of legal theory.

This may account for why he views the mainstream of American judges as pragmatists--he considers them like himself. In Posner's view, the American judiciary is composed mainly of judges who make...

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