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Eric A. Posner
Researcher at University of Chicago
Publications - 393
Citations - 17102
Eric A. Posner is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: International law & Human rights. The author has an hindex of 77, co-authored 377 publications receiving 16572 citations. Previous affiliations of Eric A. Posner include University of Michigan & Loyola Marymount University.
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Timing Rules and Legal Institutions
Jacob E. Gersen,Eric A. Posner +1 more
TL;DR: The timing of a law determines whether its benefits are created sooner or later, and how the costs and benefits are spread across time, and hence to the advantage and disadvantage of different private groups, citizens, and elected officials.
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Inside or Outside the System
Eric A. Posner,Adrian Vermeule +1 more
TL;DR: In a typical pattern in the literature on public law, the diagnostic sections of a paper draw upon political science, economics or other disciplines to offer deeply pessimistic accounts of the motivations of relevant actors in the legal system The prescriptive sections of the paper, however, then issue an optimistic proposal that the same actors should supply public-spirited solutions as discussed by the authors.
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Which States Have the Best (and Worst) High Courts
TL;DR: The authors ranked the high courts of the fifty states, based on their performance during the years 1998-2000, along three dimensions: opinion quality (or influence as measured by out-of-state citations), independence (or non-partisanship), and productivity (opinions written).
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Cost-benefit analysis : legal, economic, and philosophical perspectives
Matthew D. Adler,Eric A. Posner +1 more
TL;DR: Costbenefit analysis is a widely used governmental evaluation tool, though academics remain skeptical as discussed by the authors, and a recent volume gathers prominent contributors from law, economics, and philosophy for discussion of cost-benefit analysis, specifically its moral foundations, applications and limitations.
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Antitrust Remedies for Labor Market Power
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose methods for judging the effects of mergers on labor markets and also extend their approach to other forms of anticompetitive practices undertaken by employers against workers.