Richard A. Posner has died

Richard A. Posner, a pioneering law and economics scholar at the University of Chicago Law School and former federal appellate judge, died on November 10 at age 87. Posner spent 36 years on the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and authored thousands of court opinions, hundreds of academic articles, and dozens of books, including the seminal 1973 work "The Economic Analysis of Law," establishing himself as one of the most influential legal scholars of all time. His work brought economic theory to bear on legal rules and institutions, fundamentally shaping both legal scholarship and judicial decision-making.