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Judge Posner: The FBI should not be in
the counterterrorism business
Prolific Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner has become one of the nation's leading experts on domestic intelligence issues (see previous posts here, here and here) and is the author of Uncertain Shield: The U.S. Intelligence System in the Throes of...
Project Posner
Not just any judge has one of these. But it's a darn good idea. The following is the website's description: The purpose of this site is to make freely and easily available to the public Richard Posner's largest and greatest...
The law clerks of SCOTUS
The ubiquitous Richard Posner reviews in this New Republic Online article (free registration req'd) two new books about the law clerks of the United States Supreme Court -- Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise And Influence of the Supreme...
Posner on domestic intelligence
Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner has carved out a niche as an expert on intelligence issues (see previous posts here and here), and his new book on intelligence issues -- Uncertain Shield: The U.S. Intelligence System in the Throes of...
The "Arch-Booby?"
Seventh Circuit judge and Clear Thinkers favorite Richard Posner (previous posts here) has some fun in this recent decision involving an age-discrimination claim by a church organist. Federal courts generally do not have jurisdiction over religious disputes, but courts may...
Posner v. the Media
Three weeks ago, 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner (prior posts here) penned this "review" of eight books on the media in the NY Times Review of Books. "Review" is in parenthesis because the piece was not so much a review...
On foreign aid
The always entertaining Richard Posner (prior posts here) weighs in on the efficacy of foreign aid: I do not favor foreign aid, debt relief (which is simply another form of such aid), or other financial transfers to poor countries, in...
Posner on the new "Intelligence Czar" position
Several months ago, this post addressed Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner's criticism of the recommendations contained in the final report of the 9/11 Commission. In doing research on the 9/11 Commission report, Judge Posner decided to write a new book...
Posner on planning for unlikely catastrophes
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge, law professor, economics and law guru, and author Richard Posner has written -- in light of the recent Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster -- a timely new book, Catastrophe: Risk and Response (Oxford, Oct. 1,...
The Becker-Posner Blog gets cranked up
Second Circuit Judge and scholar Richard Posner and University of Chicago economist Gary Becker are now posting on their long awaited blog. Check it out here....
Debating the quality of law review articles
Following on this earlier post regarding Judge Richard Posner's criticism of law review articles, Judge Posner and Randy Kozel debate the issue over at Legal Affairs this week. Hat tip to The Volokh Conspiracy for the link to this interesting...
Posner on law review articles
Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner takes dead aim at law review articles in this Legal Affairs article, and the hilarious sub-headline sums up his viewpoint: Welcome to a world where inexperienced editors make articles about the wrong topics worse. Any...
Judge Posner on the 9/11 Commission Report
Richard A. Posner is a highly-regarded judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, a prolific author, and should be one of the leading candidates to...
Seventh Circuit decision on Blakely
Highly-regarded Circuit Judges Richard Posner and Frank Easterbrook of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals wrote the majority and dissenting opinions in this recent decision (U.S. v. Booker) interpreting the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in U.S. v. Blakely. In...
"I object," said the fish
Crescat Sententia noticed the following observation from 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner's opinion on the disclosure of Northwestern Memorial Hospital abortion records. Got to remember this one next time I'm pursuing a motion to quash discovery: We're still at a...
The Richard Clarke Affair -- Where does the buck stop?
This NY Times article examines an American cultural phenomenon that several historians are noting -- that is, a national culture of shifting blame, which is reflected best in American politics. Along those lines, several friends of this blog have asked...
Explosive allegations about alleged infiltration of the FBI
Paul Sperry of the Frontpage Magazine reports that a former FBI linguist has made potentially explosive allegations to the 9/11 Commission regarding the subversive actions of a key FBI Middle Eastern agent. Read the entire article, but here is tidbit:...
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