Frontiers of Legal Theory

Richard A. Posner

    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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Richard A. Posner is Circuit Judge, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.