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The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic

The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic

Eric A. Posner

The answer, according to legal scholars Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule, is nothing. In The Executive Unbound, they provide a bracing challenge to conventional wisdom, arguing that a strong presidency is inevitable in the modern world.
Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts

Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts

Eric A. Posner

In Terror in the Balance, Posner and Vermeule take on civil libertarians of both the left and the right, arguing that the government should be given wide latitude to adjust policy and liberties in the times of emergency.
Overcoming Law

Overcoming Law

Richard A. Posner

Throughout, the book is unified by Posner's distinctive stance, which is pragmatist in philosophy, economic in methodology, and liberal (in the sense of John Stuart Mill's liberalism) in politics.
Antitrust Law, Second Edition

Antitrust Law, Second Edition

Richard A. Posner

In this thoroughly revised edition, Posner explains the economic approach to new generations of lawyers and students.
Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy

Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy

Richard A. Posner

Richard Posner argues for a conception of the liberal state based on pragmatic theories of government.
Aging and Old Age

Aging and Old Age

Richard A. Posner

Observing that people change both physically and cognitively as they age, Posner suggests that each of us has, in succession, two separate selves - younger and older - with different abilities, interests, and behaviors, an insight that ...
How Judges Think

How Judges Think

Richard A. Posner

A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases.
How Judges Think

How Judges Think

Richard A. Posner

C.K.Rowland and RobertA. Carp, Politicsand Judgment in Federal District Courts 165 (1996). 12. SeeRichard A. Posner, “Cognitive Theory as the Ground ofPolitical Theoryin Plato, Popper, Dewey, andHayek,” in Cognition and Economics ...
No Hormones, No Fear: A Natural Journey Through Menopause

No Hormones, No Fear: A Natural Journey Through Menopause

Trisha Posner

No Hormones, No Fear is the story of Posner’s search for an alternative to the AMA’s sanctioned regimen of hormone replacement therapy.
Sex and Reason

Sex and Reason

Richard A. POSNER

Richard A. Posner is Circuit Judge, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.
Killing JFK: 50 Years, 50 Lies: --From the Warren Commission ...

Killing JFK: 50 Years, 50 Lies: --From the Warren Commission ...

Dr. Lance Moore

Ms. Lee, at 87, is suing her literary agent, Samuel Pinkus, who was in partnership with Posner, for trying to steal the copyright (and ... Her lawsuit asserts that Pinkus and Posner created a company in 2011 called Philologus Procurator Inc.,  ...
Frontiers of Legal Theory

Frontiers of Legal Theory

Richard A. Posner

The most exciting development in legal thinking since World War II has been the growth of interdisciplinary legal studies. Judge Richard Posner has been a leader in this movement, and his new book explores its rapidly expanding frontier.
Cardozo: A Study in Reputation

Cardozo: A Study in Reputation

Richard A. Posner

How are reputations forged? Why do some reputations endure, while others crumble? And how can we know whether a reputation is fairly deserved? In this ambitious book, Richard Posner confronts these questions in the case of Benjamin Cardozo.
The Twilight of Human Rights Law

The Twilight of Human Rights Law

Eric Posner

... THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT Jack N. Rakove WILLIAM ROBERTSON COE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND AMERICAN ... PROFESSOR OF LAW DUKE LAW SCHOOL Stephen J. Schulhofer ROBERT B. MCKAY PROFESSOR OF LAW NEW ...
Quicklet on Eric Weiner's The Geography of Bliss

Quicklet on Eric Weiner's The Geography of Bliss

Lacey Kohlmoos

Sources and Additional Reading Sources Bolton Street Synagogue, NPR commentator Eric Weiner sponsored by breathbooks Eric Weiner Books, Bio Book Reporter, Biography: Eric Weiner The Globalist, Eric Weiner World Database of ...
American Indians and Popular Culture

American Indians and Popular Culture

Elizabeth DeLaney Hoffman

Breaking Seals by Eric Gansworth. (Courtesy of Eric Gansworth) Plastic Fred by Eric Gansworth. (Courtesy of Eric Gansworth). 158 Literature, Arts, and Resistance.
Eric Clapton: The Autobiography

Eric Clapton: The Autobiography

Eric Clapton

Eric tells his story as it is, hiding nothing, with a directness and searing honesty that will make this book one of the most compelling memoirs of our time.
Eric Clapton: the autobiography

Eric Clapton: the autobiography

Eric Clapton

Now for the first time, Eric tells the story of his personal and professional journeys in this pungent, witty and painfully honest autobiography. But the rock star lifestyle has had a darker side too.
Somerset Airman

Somerset Airman

Eric Gardner

Eric Gardner grew up in Frome on a small family farm. At the age of 19 he joined the RAF. He finished the manuscript for this book just days before his sudden death at the age of 82 and so, sadly, Eric never saw it in print.
The Michael Eric Dyson Reader

The Michael Eric Dyson Reader

Michael Eric Dyson

DYSON. “Such is the genius of Dyson. He flows freely from the profound to the profane, from popular culture to classical literature.” —WASHINGTON POST THE MICHAEL ERIC DYSON READER ALSO BY MICHAEL ERIC DYSON.
The Choir Boy: Why I Turned to a Life of Crime with the ...

The Choir Boy: Why I Turned to a Life of Crime with the ...

Eric Schneider

Eric Schneider was one of the young victims in the notorious Boy Scout sexual abuse case that rocked Boston in the mid-1980s. By his teens, Eric was a drug dealer, arsonist, and small-time thief.
Selfportrait.map

Selfportrait.map

Lilla LoCurto

This volume accompanies an exhibition of 18 of these images. Helaine Posner is an independent curator living in New York.
Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight ...

Can You Hear Me Now?: The Inspiration, Wisdom, and Insight ...

Michael Eric Dyson

Praise for Michael Eric Dyson “Michael Eric Dyson . . . is a world-class scholar and the most brilliant interpreter of hip hop culture we have.” Jay Z “If any one person is continuing W. E. B. Du Bois's idea of the engaged public intellectual on  ...
Annual Report of the Attorney General of South Carolina to ...

Annual Report of the Attorney General of South Carolina to ...

South Carolina. Attorney General's Office

Eric Harmon—I-Iousebreaking and Larceny Eric Harmon—Housebreaking and Larceny Eric Harmon—Housebreaking and Larceny Eric Harmon— Housebreaking and Larceny. Eric Harm0n—Housebreaking and Larcenv Joseph  ...
The Value of Suicide:

The Value of Suicide:

Eric v.d. Luft

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