Comments on: Posner’s Expertise http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/08/posners-expertise.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:44:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Frank http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/08/posners-expertise.html/comment-page-1#comment-65113 Frank Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:34:27 +0000 http://www.concurringopinions.com/?p=19339#comment-65113 I suppose at some point a critical mass of Posner-critique will build. Some of my favorites include: Eskridge, The Economics Epidemic in an AIDS Perspective, in The University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 61, No. 2 (Spring, 1994), Ian Shapiro, Richard Posner's Praxis, a chapter in Shapiro's book The flight from reality in the human sciences. Most of the commentaries on his Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory (I think published in the Harvard L. Rev., along with the lecture that later became the book). Jeanne L. Schroeder, Just So Stories: Posnerian Economic Methodology, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=229874. And the reflections here on whether his book Public Intellectuals is "worthy of being dismissed or being considered an elaborate joke:" http://www.complete-review.com/quarterly/vol3/issue2/posner.htm I suppose at some point a critical mass of Posner-critique will build. Some of my favorites include:

Eskridge, The Economics Epidemic in an AIDS Perspective, in The University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 61, No. 2 (Spring, 1994),

Ian Shapiro, Richard Posner’s Praxis, a chapter in Shapiro’s book The flight from reality in the human sciences.

Most of the commentaries on his Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory (I think published in the Harvard L. Rev., along with the lecture that later became the book).

Jeanne L. Schroeder, Just So Stories: Posnerian Economic Methodology, available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=229874.

And the reflections here on whether his book Public Intellectuals is “worthy of being dismissed or being considered an elaborate joke:”
http://www.complete-review.com/quarterly/vol3/issue2/posner.htm

]]> By: Maryland Conservatarian http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/08/posners-expertise.html/comment-page-1#comment-65067 Maryland Conservatarian Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:14:31 +0000 http://www.concurringopinions.com/?p=19339#comment-65067 These reactions to Posner's article perhaps offer some insights to those on my side of the aisle's constant eye-rolling at much of what Paul Krugman writes. These reactions to Posner’s article perhaps offer some insights to those on my side of the aisle’s constant eye-rolling at much of what Paul Krugman writes.

]]> By: fishbane http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/08/posners-expertise.html/comment-page-1#comment-65066 fishbane Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:16:39 +0000 http://www.concurringopinions.com/?p=19339#comment-65066 Putting aside the stay-outta-my-discipline snark, when I (a non-lawyer, non-economist, non-academic with a mere undergrad degree in comp sci) can easily spot the problems in Posner's comments without a cheat-sheet (I read, and dismissed, him before I saw any of the retorts), what does that say about the quality of the argument? Posner seems to suffer from the sort of overreach a lot of very smart experts do. More than one distinguished engineer is considered a crank by physicists due to elementary failures of understanding when they tried to jump disciplines. What do we call it when it happens to a lawyer? Putting aside the stay-outta-my-discipline snark, when I (a non-lawyer, non-economist, non-academic with a mere undergrad degree in comp sci) can easily spot the problems in Posner’s comments without a cheat-sheet (I read, and dismissed, him before I saw any of the retorts), what does that say about the quality of the argument?

Posner seems to suffer from the sort of overreach a lot of very smart experts do. More than one distinguished engineer is considered a crank by physicists due to elementary failures of understanding when they tried to jump disciplines. What do we call it when it happens to a lawyer?

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