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In the first edition of Catastrophe, Richard Posner outlined the very real and continuing threat of massive catastrophes, from asteroid collisions to nuclear accidents to global warming to particle accelerator disasters. In this new edition, he incorporates the many new scholarly insights about catastrophe and risk that have emerged in the wake of the Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, discussing these events in detail and applying the same pragma...

law and legal theory is a comparative analysis of the English and American legal systems at the level of theory, doctrine, and operation.

When it was first published a quarter of a century ago, Richard Posners exposition and defense of an economic approach to antitrust law was a jeremiad against the intellectual disarray that then characterized the field. As other perspectives on antitrust law have fallen away, Posners book has played a major role in transforming the field of antitrust law into a body of economically rational principles largely in accord with the ideas set forth...

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The authors have developed a natural order for students to understand the antitrust field based upon a division of the practices challenged into two groups. One group of competing firms eliminate competition purely among themselves. The second group of firms seek to exclude actual or potential competitors.

Many of the measures taken by the Bush administration since 9/11 have sparkedheated protests. Judge Richard A. Posner offers a cogent and elegant responseto these protests, arguing that personal liberty must be balanced with publicsafety in the face of grave national danger.

Encuadernación: RústicaEl pequeño libro del plagio es un ensayo conciso e inteligente sobre la copia y la propiedad intelectual, escrito por uno de los juristas más respetados de Estados Unidos.En los últimos años escritores en lengua inglesa como J. K. Rowling, Dan Brown o españoles como Camilo José Cela son algunos de los creadores que han sido acusados, con o sin fundamento, de plagiar otras obras, pero, ¿qué es exactamente el plagio? ¿Cómo...

The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 is the most alarming of our lifetime because of the warp-speed at which it is occurring. Posner presents a concise and nontechnical examination of this mother of all financial disasters and of the, as yet, stumbling efforts to cope with it.

Domestic intelligence in the US today is undermanned, uncoordinated, technologically challenged, and dominated by an agency, the FBI, that is structurally unsuited to play the central role in national security intelligence. Richard A. Posner reveals all the dangerous weaknesses undermining US domestic intelligence and offers a new solution: a domestic intelligence agency modelled on the concept and basic design of the Canadian Security Intelli...

Following his timely and well-received A Failure of Capitalism, Richard Posner steps back to take a longer view of the continuing crisis of democratic capitalism as the American and world economies crawl gradually back from the depths to which they had fallen in the autumn of 2008 and the winter of 2009.By means of a lucid narrative of the crisis and a series of analytical chapters pinpointing critical issues of economic collapse and gradual r...

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The federal courts are the world's most powerful judiciary and a vital element of the American political system. In this revised edition of "The Federal Courts: Crisis and Reform", Richard A. Posner provides an evaluation of the federal judiciary and a programme of judicial reform.

Here one of America's most distinguished scholar-judges shares with us his vision of the law. Posner argues for a pragmatic jurisprudence, one that eschews formalism in favor of the factual and the empirical. Laws, he argues, are not abstract, sacred entities, but socially determined goads for shaping behavior to conform with society's values.

the current scene in legal studies--and a hopeful prospect for its future.

The most exciting development in legal thinking since World War II has been the growth of interdisciplinary legal studies. Judge Richard Posner has been a leader in this movement, and his new book explores its rapidly expanding frontier.