The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory, by Richard A. Posner. Cambridge (MA): The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. 320 pp.

2000 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben A. Rich
Keyword(s):  
Legal Theory ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Law School ◽  
Ronald Dworkin ◽  
Prolific Author ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

In his professional life, Richard Posner is addressed as “Your Honor,” inasmuch as he is Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He is also a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. Finally, he is a prolific author of books and articles in scholarly journals in which he expounds at length and with copious footnotes his particular views of jurisprudence and public policy. One of his frequent intellectual adversaries, legal philosopher Ronald Dworkin, wryly described Judge Posner as “the lazy judge who writes a book before breakfast, decides several cases before noon, teaches all afternoon at the Chicago Law School, and performs brain surgery after dinner.”

Book Reviews

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 1175-1177
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Federal Courts ◽  
Law School ◽  
District Court ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
Federal Judiciary ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

Joshua C. Teitelbaum of Georgetown University reviews “Reflections on Judging”, by Richard A. Posner. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the challenges that the federal courts face today, with particular emphasis on rising complexity, drawing upon Richard Posner's personal experience as a judge. Discusses Posner's road to the U.S. Court of Appeals; the federal judiciary evolving; the challenge of complexity; formalism and realism in appellate decision making; the inadequate appellate record; coping strategies for appellate judges--judicial self-restraint; coping strategies for appellate judges--interpretation; making it simple, making it new--opinion writing and appellate advocacy; forays into the district court; and potential solutions. Posner is Circuit Judge with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.”

Essays in Honor of Judge John T. Noonan, Jr.: An Introduction

1988 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-150
Author(s):  
Bernard J. Cassidy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Law School ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Alma Mater ◽  
Law Schools ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
Legal Studies ◽  
Major Figure ◽  
The University

Judge John T. Noonan, Jr., the honoree of this festschrift, is a major figure in both legal studies and religious studies, and so it is especially fitting that theJournal of Law and Religionpublish these essays in his honor. This essay will serve as an introduction to Noonan's works and to the essays collected herewith.John Noonan's activities in connection with secular law are fairly well known. He has served with distinction as United States Circuit Judge on the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 1985. In addition to serving on the bench, he has taught for nearly thirty years at Boalt Hall, the law school at the University of California at Berkeley, and twice been a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Earlier he was Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School, and throughout his career he has served as a visiting professor at other distinguished law schools including Stanford and Harvard, his alma mater.

Changes in Washington Affect the DDT Battle

DDT Wars ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles F. Wurster
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Law School ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Court Order ◽  
The Public ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
Pesticide Regulation ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University

Late in 1970, President Nixon proposed and Congress approved creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in the process transferring the Pesticide Regulation Division from USDA to EPA. For pesticide regulation, this was no minor matter. The transfer was from USDA, an agency that primarily protected pesticide manufacturers and promoted their products, to EPA, an agency that was directly charged with protecting the environment. That was to make a large difference in how the DDT issue would be resolved. The first administrator of EPA was William D. Ruckelshaus, an attorney with a sterling record of public service in government. The other major item was the decision on DDT from the DC Court of Appeals. On January 7, 1971, the court ordered Ruckelshaus to immediately cancel all registrations of DDT and to determine whether DDT was “an imminent hazard to the public” and therefore should be suspended. The court was clearly annoyed by USDA’s failure to give adequate reasons for not suspending, so “it will be necessary to remand the case once more, for a fresh determination” of the matter of suspension. The court had taken away the discretion usually afforded a federal agency and ordered it to take action. This was an unprecedented decision. EPA had only been created on December 2, 1970; Ruckelshaus barely had time to find his telephone before this court order landed on his desk as his first order of business. Perhaps the most important part of this decision was that EDF survived USDA’s motions to throw our case out of court. The standing for citizens to sue the government, previously unavailable, had now been established by this precedent-setting decision. This was the firm beginning of what we now call “environmental law.” But you should not take the legal conclusion of a lowly scientist (me). Instead, here are the words of Joseph L. Sax, a professor of law at the University of Michigan Law School, from his September 30, 1973, letter in support of EDF’s application for the Tyler Ecology Award (we did not get it).

Book Reviews

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-149
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
The World ◽  
University Professor ◽  
The University

Marc Levinson of Council on Foreign Relations reviews “Uncommon Sense: Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism” by Gary S. Becker, Richard A. Posner,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Presents a collection of articles from the joint opinion blog of Gary S. Becker and Richard A. Posner on a range of contemporary issues in economic policy. Focuses on topics in sex and population; property rights; universities; incentives; jobs and employment; environment and disasters; crime and punishment and terrorism; and the world. Becker is University Professor in the Department of Economics, the Department of Sociology, and the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. Posner is a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and senior lecturer in law at the University of Chicago. Index.”

Constitutional Law in 1956–1957

1958 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-191
Author(s):  
David Fellman
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
Law School ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
State Supreme Court ◽  
The University

Two changes in the personnel of the United States Supreme Court occurred during the 1956 Term. Justice Sherman Minton, appointed by President Truman in 1949, retired on October 15, 1956, at the age of sixty-five, for reasons of health. Prior to his appointment to the Court, Justice Minton had served as U. S. Senator from Indiana and had spent eight years on the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. To take his place President Eisenhower gave a recess appointment to William Joseph Brennan, Jr., who took the oath of office on October 16, at the age of fifty. A native of Newark and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and of the Harvard Law School, he had served by appointment in 1949 on the New Jersey Superior Court, was advanced to the Appellate Division in 1950, and was appointed to the state Supreme Court in 1952. Justice Brennan was a Democrat, a Catholic, (the first since Justice Frank Murphy, who died in 1949), and the son of an Irish immigrant; and his appointment was announced just three weeks before the presidential election of 1956.

scholarly journals Tony Angelo and the University of the South Pacific

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 571
Author(s):  
Sue Farran
Keyword(s):  
South Pacific ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Law School ◽  
Outstanding Contribution ◽  
The South ◽  
Senior Lecturer ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The University

The author, having served as a Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at the University of South Pacific, pays tribute to Professor Tony Angelo's involvement in that University. The author notes that Professor Angelo was instrumental in the structuring and content of the Bachelor of Laws degree, and has continued to support the University in several different ways. The original aim of its law school, which remains unchanged, is to produce graduates who are appropriately prepared for a wide range of employment and service opportunities within the region and to make an outstanding contribution to the South Pacific communities. Professor Angelo has been, and continues to be, a key player in that mission.

scholarly journals In Memoriam: Professor Kathryn R. Heidt

2006 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry M. Flechtner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Law School ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
Wayne State University ◽  
State College ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
College Of Law ◽  
The Law ◽  
The University

What is most notable about the life and the career of Professor Kathryn R. Heidt is not that it was tragically cut short by her death on May 24, 2005, but that she was able to achieve so much, both personally and professionally, in the too-brief time allotted to her. After receiving her bachelor’s degree from Penn State and her J.D. from Cleveland State College of Law, Professor Heidt clerked for two years for the Honorable John T. Patton of the Ohio Court of Appeals before becoming an associate with the Philadelphia law firm Duane Morris & Heckscher. Opting for a change in her path in the law, she obtained an LL.M. from Yale Law School and began her distinguished academic career. Before joining the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh as a Professor of Law in 1995, Professor Heidt had served on the law faculty at Wayne State University Law School, and had been a visiting faculty member of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the University of North Carolina School of Law, New York Law School, and the Law Faculty of the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands.

Fisher v. University of Texas and the Status of Affirmative Action

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norma M. Riccucci
Keyword(s):  
Affirmative Action ◽  
Appellate Court ◽  
University Admissions ◽  
High Court ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Court Of Appeals ◽  
The Status ◽  
Continued Use ◽  
The University ◽  
The U.S

In June of 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas that threatened the continued use of affirmative action to promote diversity in university admissions. It vacated the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which upheld its use, and remanded the case back to the appellate court. This legal brief examines the implications of the Fifth Circuit’s decision on remand. It examines the appellate court’s response to the High Court on remand, where it once again upheld the affirmative action program at the University of Texas.

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