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Contents
Introduction
I - Economics
1. The Law and Economics Movement: From Bentham to Becker
2. The Speech Market
3. Normative Law and Economics: From Utilitarianism to Pragmatism
II - History
4. Law's Dependence on the Past
5. Historicism in Legal Scholarship: Ackerman and Kahn
6. Savigny, Holmes, and the Law and Economics of Possession
III - Psychology
7. Emotion in Law
8. Behavioral Law and Economics
9. Social Norms, with a Note on Religion
IV - Epistemology
10. Testimony
11. The Principles of Evidence and the Critique of Adversarial Procedure
12. The Rules of Evidence
V - Empiricism
13. Counting, Especially Citations
Acknowledgments
Index
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Author Details
Richard A. Posner is Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. He is the author of many books, most recently, Public Intellectuals and Law. Pragmatism, and Democracy (both from Harvard).
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