Word: posner
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...professors say they’ve heard that University President Lawrence H. Summers is tossing around unconventional names—first Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and former Harvard General Counsel Margaret H. Marshall, and then, more recently, high-profile Seventh Circuit Court Judge Richard A. Posner...
...number of professors say they heard Summers was interested in courting the controversial judge and self-proclaimed public intellectual, Posner...
...Judge Posner would be a disaster as dean of Harvard Law School,” one HLS professor says. “He is a lightning rod. The only good thing that would come out of him being dean would be that it would get him out of the court, and he would do less damage as a dean than as a judge...
...Posner would not confirm or deny whether he has been contacted about the dean search, though he, too, was at the Law School last week...
...case, I have never seriously considered the position because I would never quit my judgeship for it,” Posner says...