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Eric Posner

Eric A. Posner | |
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Basic facts | |
Organization: | University of Chicago Law School |
Location: | Chicago, Ill. |
Education: | •Yale University •Harvard Law School |
Eric A. Posner is an American lawyer and professor. As of May 2024, he was the Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law and the Arthur and Esther Kane Research Chair at the University of Chicago Law School. According to his faculty profile page, Posner's research interests include international law and constitutional law.[1]
Career
Below is a summary of Posner's education and career:[1]
Academic degrees:
- B.A. (1988), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
- M.A. (1988), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
- J.D. (1991), Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Professional positions and honors
- Law clerk, Stephen F. Williams, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1991-1992
- Attorney adviser, Office of Legal Counsel, United States Department of Justice, 1992-1993
- Assistant professor of law, University of Pennsylvania, 1993-1998
- Professor of law, University of Pennsylvania, 1998
- Professor of law, University of Chicago Law School, 1998-Present
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member of the American Law Institute
Academic scholarship
The following table contains a selection of works by Posner about the administrative state and related issues. Any links in the table below feature Ballotpedia summaries of that scholarly work.[1]
Works related to the administrative state | |||
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Title | Source | ||
"The Real Political Question Doctrine" | Stanford Law Review (2023) | ||
"Interring the Nondelegation Doctrine" | Administrative Law Review (2023) | ||
"Chevronizing Around Cost-Benefit Analysis" | Duke Law Journal (2021) | ||
"Deference to the Executive in the United States after September 11" | Journal of Constitutional Law (2020) | ||
"Norming in Administrative Law" | Duke Law Journal (2019) | ||
"Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Judicial Role" | University of Chicago Law Review (2018) | ||
"Moral Commitments in Cost-Benefit Analysis" | Virginia Law Review (2017) | ||
"Should Regulation Be Countercyclical?" | Yale Journal on Regulation (2017) | ||
"Unquantified Benefits and the Problem of Regulation Under Uncertainty" | Cornell Law Review (2016) | ||
"The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic" | Oxford University Press (2011) | ||
"Social Norms, Non-Legal Sanctions, and the Law" | Edward Elgar (2007) | ||
"New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis" | Harvard University Press (2006) | ||
"Interring the Nondelegation Doctrine" | The University of Chicago Law Review (2002) | ||
"Cost-Benefit Analysis: Legal, Philosophical, and Economic Perspectives" | University of Chicago Press (2001) | ||
"The Regulation of Groups: The Influence of Legal and Nonlegal Sanctions on Collective Action" | University of Chicago Law Review (1996) | ||
"Contract Law in the Welfare State: A Defense of the Unconscionability Doctrine, Usury Laws, and Related Limitations on the Freedom to Contract" | Journal of Legal Studies (1995) |
See also
- Ballotpedia's administrative state coverage
- Administrative State Bibliography
- Scholarly work related to the administrative state
External links
Footnotes