Quote of the day
That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
Richard Posner
Born: January 11, 1939 (age 85)
Bio: Richard Allen Posner is an American jurist and economist, who is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.
Known for:
- Economic analysis of law (2014)
- Reflections on Judging (2013)
- How Judges Think (2008)
- Sex and reason (1992)
- The Little Book of Plagiarism (2007)