Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

I. Youth and Education
1. Parents
2. Grade and High School
3. Yale College

II. Law School, Government Jobs, and First Teaching Job
1. Harvard Law School
2. Supreme Court Clerkship with Justice Brennan
3. Assistant to Philip Elman at the Federal Trade Commission
4. Solicitor General's Office
5. President's Task Force on Telecommunications
6. Stanford Law School and Introduction to Law and Economics

III. University of Chicago
1. Economic Analysis and Economic Analysis of Law
2. Building a Career and Spreading the Word of Economic Analysis of Law
3. Consulting Work and Founding of Lexecon
4. Seventh Circuit Judgeship Opportunity

IV. 1982-1989
1. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
2. Friendship with Henry Friendly
3. Judicial Opinions like No Others
4. Developing Reputation
5. Studies in the Federal Courts, Law and Literature, and Jurisprudence

V. 1990-1999
1. Work on the Court and Reputation
2. Posner Revealed in Correspondence
3. Studies on Great Judges, Old Age, Sex, , Clinton Impeachment, Public Intellectuals and Jurisprudence
4. Mediator in Microsoft Litigation

V. 2000-2009
1. Work on the Court and Reputation
2. Studies on the 2000 Election, National Security, the Economy in Peril, and the Nature of Judging

VI. 2010-2014
1. Work on the Court and Reputation
2. Studies on Judicial Performance and Behavior
3. Feud with Justice Scalia

About the Author

William Domnarski has been a lawyer and legal writer for 30 years. He is the author of three previous books on federal judges, as well as a book on the nature of practicing law. He has a JD from the University of Connecticut School of Law and a Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Riverside.

Reviews

"The author, a longtime attorney and legal writer, intrepidly embraces a daunting subject in this fine-tuned, well-researched intellectual biography of Richard Posner...An indispensable read for fans of Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein's Nudge"--Library Journal