Overcoming Law

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext
Posner discusses the structure and behavior of the legal profession; constitutional theory; interdisciplinary approaches to law; the nature of legal reasoning; and legal pragmatism. The book contains frank appraisals of feminist and critical race theories, the behavior of the German and British judiciaries in wartime, and more.

Inhalt
Preface Introduction Pragmatism, Economics, Liberalism Part One The Profession 1. The Material Basis of Jurisprudence 2. The Triumphs and Travails of Legal Scholarship 3. What Do Judges Maximize? 4. The Profession in Crisis: Germany and Britain Part Two Constitutional Theory 5. Legal Reasoning from the Top Down and from the Bottom Up 6. Have We Constitutional Theory? 7. Legal Positivism without Positive Law 8. What Am I? A Potted Plant? 9. Bork and Beethoven Part Three Variety and Ideology in Legal Theory 10. The First Neoconservative 11. The Left-Wing History of American Legal Thought 12. Pragmatic or Utopian? 13. Hegel and Employment at Will 14. Postmodern Medieval Iceland Part Four Of Gender and Race 15. Ms. Aristotle 16. Biology, Economics, and the Radical Feminist Critique of Sex and Reason 17. Obsessed with Pornography 18. Nuance, Narrative, and Empathy in Critical Race Theory Part Five Philosophical and Economic Perspectives 19. So What Has Pragmatism to Offer Law? 20. Ronald Coase and Methodology 21. The New Institutional Economics Meets Law and Economics 22. What Are Philosophers Good For? Part Six At the Frontier 23. Law and Literature Revisited 24. Rhetoric, Legal Advocacy, and Legal Reasoning 25. The Legal Protection of the Face We Present to the World 26. Economics and the Social Construction of Homosexuality Credits Index

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