Last summer, Richard A. Posner, a federal appeals court judge, issued a surprising and prescient dissent. Executive pay is out of control, he said, and the marketplace cannot be trusted to rein it in.
Treating Financial Consumers as Consenting Adults Wall Street Journal Richard A. Posner July 22, 2009
Will the epitaph of the Obama administration be “too much, too soon, too costly”? Among worrisome signs is its proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009.
On June 30, 2009, Judge Richard Posner, Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, appeared on CNBC's "Squawk on the Street" program to discuss the Obama administration's new report on regulatory reform. Judge Posner offered his own alternative plan. You can hear the interview at the CNBC website.
A Failure of Capitalism is important less for what it says than for who is saying it. A judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, Richard Posner is one of America's most prominent and prolific public intellectuals.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer spoke to students, faculty, and staff in the Law School's auditorium as part of a two-day conference on Shakespeare and the Law, with law professor Martha Nussbaum, appellate judge Richard Posner, and English professor Richard Strier.
Supreme Court Justice Makes Chicago Acting Debut Chris Jones Chicago Tribune May 14, 2009
Meet the newest Chicago actor: Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Breyer will be appearing as the Ghost in "Hamlet" in Hyde Park on Friday, with an encore presentation slated for Saturday.
Judge No Longer A Believer In Unfettered Markets All Things Considered May 9, 2009
Richard Posner is one of the most cited legal scholars in America. He's a federal judge, and he's cranked out a new book almost every year for the past 40 years, writing about everything from sex to Kafka to, of course, the law.
