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Article: Posner, Richard Allen
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- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
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POSNER, RICHARD ALLEN
"[A] pragmatic approach [to lawisone] that is practical and instrumental rather than essentialist
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interested in what works and what is useful rather than in what 'really' is. It is therefore forward-looking, valuing continuity with the past only so far as such continuity can help us cope with problems of the present and the future."
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Richard A. Posner
Author, legal scholar, and federal judge, Richard A. Posner is one of the most influential and controversial figures in contemporary American law. Posner rose to prominence first in academia in the early 1970s, when he championed economic analysis of the law. With his faith in free-market capitalism and ...