Word: posner
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Richard A. Posner does not impute nefarious motives to researchers conducting high-energy particle collision experiments. But in his latest book, Catastrophe, Posner does suggest that one of these experiments could trigger a “strangelet scenario”—a chain reaction that will condense the entire Earth into a tiny ball just 100 meters in diameter...
...Posner is not a scientist: rather, he is a law professor at University of Chicago and a federal appellate judge on the Seventh Circuit. Rumor has it Posner was considered—briefly—for the post of Harvard Law School dean in 2003. (He quickly took himself out of the running...
Beyond the legal world, Posner is renowned as a prolific and insightful scholar: he is the author of more than 30 books, and—according to one list—number 70 on the list of most frequently-cited public intellectuals alive. (Granted, Posner did compile the list himself...
Kagan noted that one of the founders of the discipline, Judge Richard A. Posner of the 7th federal circuit, does not have an economics degree, although among the movement’s leaders, “that’s rare...
...same study named Ely as the fourth most frequently cited American legal scholar of all time, trailing only Richard A. Posner, Ronald Dworkin and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Class...