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Eric Posner  

Author, Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago

Eric Posner is Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago. His books include "The Twilight of Human Rights Law" (Oxford, 2014); "Economic Foundations of International Law" (with Alan Sykes) (Harvard, 2013); "Contract Law and Theory" (Aspen, 2011); "The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic" (with Adrian Vermeule) (Oxford, 2011); "Climate Change Justice" (with David Weisbach) (Princeton, 2010); "The Perils of Global Legalism" (Chicago, 2009); "Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty and the Courts" (with Adrian Vermeule) (Oxford, 2007); "New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis" (with Matthew Adler) (Harvard, 2006); "The Limits of International Law" (with Jack Goldsmith) (Oxford, 2005); "Law and Social Norms" (Harvard, 2000); "Chicago Lectures in Law and Economics" (editor) (Foundation, 2000); "Cost-Benefit Analysis: Legal, Economic, and Philosophical Perspectives" (editor, with Matthew Adler) (University of Chicago, 2001). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Law Institute.

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