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Reflections on judging is an interesting and often engaging book, but posners arguments against textualism and originalism fall some considerable distance short of his stated ambitions. Posner, a judge on the united states court of appeals for the seventh circuit, is about what judges should do. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. For richard posner, legal formalism and formalist judges notably antonin scalia present the main obstacles to coping with the dizzying.
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But the principal culprit, in reflections as in many of posners previous writings. I hope to offer some commentary on the book in a series of posts. Court of appeals for the seventh circuit and the principal exponent of the enormously influential law and economics movement, he writes provocative books as a public intellectual, receives frequent media attention, and has been at the. Posner, 9780674725089, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Judge posner rejects sterile legalist theories in favor of a pragmatic approach to judicial decisionmaking, heavily influenced by economic theory. Aside from some early personal memoir, reflections on jud ging focuses on complexity in the federal judiciary, the. Kennedy and oswalds murderer, jack ruby, acted independently as well.