Eric Andrew Posner is an American law professor at the University of Chicago Law School. He teaches international law, contract law, and bankruptcy, among other areas. As of 2014, he was the 4th most-cited legal scholar in the United States. He is the son of retired Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner.
Education
Posner attended Yale University in 1991. He clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams of the D.C. Circuit.
Posner's published books have ranged over several topics including international law, foreign relations law, contracts, and game theory and the law. In 2005, Posner posted about the trial of the deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. In June 2013, Posner and Jameel Jaffer, fellow at the Open Society Foundations, participated in The New York TimesRoom for Debate series. Posner responded to concerns about expanded National Security Agency programs that vacuum information about the private lives of American citizens. Those who oppose the surveillance claim that the collection and storing of unlimited metadata is a highly invasive form of surveillance of citizens' communications. Posner claimed that Americans obtain the services they want by disclosing private information to strangers such as doctors and insurance companies. Posner in 2013 argued that since 2001 there had not been a single instance of "war-on-terror-related surveillance in which the government used information obtained for security purposes to target a political opponent, dissenter or critic". In 2015, Posner co-founded the book review The New Rambler. Posner's position concerning the heightened standing of the executive branch of government was criticized in 2016 by Jeremy Waldron in his book Political Political Theory as not sufficiently sensitive to issue of legislative priorities. In 2018, Posner co-wrote an article advocating a system of market-oriented, privately sponsored work visas as a supplement to U.S. immigration policy.
Selected bibliography
Books
Law and Social Norms.
The Limits of International Law .
Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts .
Perils of Global Legalism
Law and Happiness
Climate Change Justice
The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic ,
Last Resort: The Financial Crisis and the Future Bailouts
The Demagogue's Playbook: The Battle for American Democracy from the Founders to Trump
Articles
"Understanding the Resemblance Between Modern and Traditional Customary International Law", 40 Va. J. Int’l Law 639
"Moral and Legal Rhetoric in International Relations: A Rational Choice Perspective", 31 J. Legal Stud. S115
"Do States Have a Moral Obligation to Comply with International Law?", 55 Stan. L. Rev. 1901
"A Theory of the Laws of War", 70 U. Chi. L. Rev. 297
"Transnational Legal Process and the Supreme Court’s 2003–2004 Term: Some Skeptical Observations", 12 Tulsa Journal of Comparative and International Law 23
"Judicial Independence in International Tribunals", 93 Cal. L. Rev. 1
"Optimal War and Jus ad Bellum", 93 Georgetown L.J. 993
"Terrorism and the Laws of War", 5 Chi. J. Int’l L. 423
"International Law and the Disaggregated State", 32 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 797
"International Law and the Rise of China", 7 Chi. J. Int’l L. 1
"International Law: A Welfarist Approach", 73 U. Chi. L. Rev. 487
"An Economic Analysis of State and Individual Responsibility Under International Law", Amer. L. & Econ. Rev.
"Deference to the Executive in the United States after September 11: Congress, the Courts, and the Office of Legal Counsel," 35 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 213.
