Overcoming Law.
Posner, Richard A. Overcoming Law. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, [1995]. x, 597 pp. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt stamped spine, fine in fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $15. * A critique of modern American legal theory and judicial practice. Posner, an influential federal appellate judge and legal theorist, deploys his signature law and economics framework alongside behavioral social sciences to evaluate the current state of the legal profession. The text delivers a sweeping analysis of contemporary jurisprudence, offering sharp critiques of constitutional originalism, critical legal studies, and radical feminist legal theory. Individual chapters investigate the economic structure of the court system, the regulation of the legal market, the appointment of federal judges, and the real-world operational barriers to efficient statutory interpretation.
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