Richard A. Posner
Senior Lecturer in Law
1111 East 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
phone: 773-702-9608
email: tarak@uchicago.edu

EDUCATION

Harvard University
LL.B., 1962
magna cum laude
Fay Diploma
Sears and Beale Prizes
President, Harvard Law Review
Yale UniversityA.B., 1959
summa cum laudePhi Beta Kappa (elected junior year)
Scholar of the House
Saybrook Fellows' Prize

University of Athens, D. Hon. Causa, 2002
Aristotle University, LL.D. (Hon.), 2002
Northwestern University, LL.D. (Hon.), 2001
Brooklyn Law School, J.D. (Hon.), 2000
University of Pennsylvania, LL.D. (Hon.), 1997
Yale University, LL.D. (Hon.), 1996
University of Ghent, D. Hon. Causa, 1995
Georgetown University, LL.D. (Hon.), 1993
Duquesne University, LL.D. (Hon.), 1987
Syracuse University, LL.D. (Hon.), 1986

EXPERIENCE
University of Chicago Law School
Senior Lecturer, 1981-present
Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law, 1978-1981Professor of Law, 1969-1978

United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Chief Judge, 1993-2000Circuit Judge, 1981-present

Lexecon Inc.
President, 1977-1981

National Bureau of Economic Research
Research Associate, 1971-1981

Stanford University
Associate Professor of Law, 1968-1969

President's Task Force on Communications Policy
General Counsel, 1967-1968

Solicitor General's Office
Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States (Thurgood Marshall), 1965-1967

Federal Trade Commission
Assistant to Commissioner Philip Elman, 1963-1965

Supreme Court of the United States
Law Clerk to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., 1962-1963

ELECTED MEMBERSHIPS
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Fellow)

American Law Institute (Life Member)

British Academy (Corresponding Fellow)

Century Association

Mont Pelerin Society