
In the ever-expanding galaxy of American jurisprudence, few stars shine as brilliantly as Richard A. Posner, a judge on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. Everything about Posner screams the finest: Yale undergrad, Harvard Law, Supreme Court clerk, Stanford law professor, federal judge since 1981, author of more than twenty books, and, as John Cassidy notes in a Jan. 11 New Yorker story, for decades. A leading figure in the conservative Chicago School of economics.