Eric Posner

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birth_date = 1965
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fields = Law and economics
workplaces = University of Chicago Law School
alma_mater = Yale University
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Eric A. Posner (born 1965) is a law professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He is the son of the prominent federal appellate judge Richard Posner. His current research focuses on international law and international tribunals. He has written about the trial of the deposed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. [http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/saddams_trial/index.html]

Posner attended Yale University (B.A., M.A. in philosophy, summa cum laude) and received his law degree from Harvard Law School (J.D., magna cum laude) in 1991, and clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the D.C. Circuit.

Writings

*" [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195168399 The Limits of International Law] " (Oxford University Press 2005) (with Jack Goldsmith).
*" [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674008146 Law and Social Norms] ", (Harvard University Press 2000).
* " [http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=507003 Is the International Court of Justice Biased?] ," "J. Legal Stud." (forthcoming 2005) (with Miguel de Figueiredo).
*" [http://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/posnervermeulecliches.html Judicial Cliches on Terrorism] ," "The Washington Post", August 8, 2005 (with Adrian Vermeule).
*" [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/opinion/25posner.html A Threat That Belongs Behind Bars] ," "The New York Times", June 25, 2006

External links

* [http://www.law.uchicago.edu/faculty/posner-e/ University of Chicago Law School biography]
* [http://www.ericposner.com www.ericposner.com]