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Richard Posner, former 7th Circuit judge and legal scholar, dies at 87
The University of Chicago Law School said Senior Lecturer Richard Allen Posner, a former 7th Circuit judge and law-and-economics scholar, died Nov. 10 at 87. AP carried the school's notice.
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The University of Chicago Law School said Senior Lecturer Richard Allen Posner died Nov. 10 at 871. The Associated Press, citing the school, reported the death as Tuesday.
The school said Posner joined its faculty in 1969, spent 36 years on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, served as chief judge from 1993 to 2000, and retired from the bench in 20171. AP said President Ronald Reagan appointed him in 1981 and that he served nearly 40 years.
Chicago said he wrote The Economic Analysis of Law in 1973, now in a ninth edition, and that he authored thousands of opinions, hundreds of articles, and dozens of books1. AP likewise called the 1973 book foundational and still in print.
AP said a 2017 opinion found the 1964 Civil Rights Act barred discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workers. The school described him as an advocate of legal pragmatism1; AP said he described his judging as pragmatic.
Dean Adam Chilton said there had never been a legal scholar quite as prolific, influential, and endlessly curious, calling him a giant whose influence on the legal system, law and economics, and the school could not be overstated1. AP noted that Posner’s son Eric is a professor there.
AP said Posner in 2016 called the U.S. Supreme Court highly politicized. A cause of death was not given in the school notice or the AP dispatch1. The New York Times and Reuters also published obituaries; those full texts were not available here.