Profile

Full Name

Eric A. Posner

Position

Kirkland & Ellis Professor

Organization

University of Chicago Law School

URL

http://ericposner.com/

Biography

Eric Posner is Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law, University of Chicago. He writes about contract law, international law, constitutional law, and administrative law. His books include Economic Foundations of International Law (with Alan Sykes) (Harvard, forthcoming); Contract Law and Theory (Aspen, 2011); The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic (with Adrian Vermeule) (Oxford, 2011); Climate Change Justice (with David Weisbach) (Princeton, 2010); The Perils of Global Legalism (Chicago, 2009); Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty and the Courts (with Adrian Vermeule) (Oxford, 2007); New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis (with Matthew Adler) (Harvard, 2006); The Limits of International Law (with Jack Goldsmith) (Oxford, 2005); Law and Social Norms (Harvard, 2000); Chicago Lectures in Law and Economics (editor) (Foundation, 2000); Cost-Benefit Analysis: Legal, Economic, and Philosophical Perspectives (editor, with Matthew Adler) (University of Chicago, 2001). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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