The Yale Law Journal

Richard A. Posner

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Eighteen Years On: A Re-Review

Richard A. Posner

The Case for Same-Sex Marriage: From Sexual Liberty to Civilized Commitment BY WILLIAM N. ESKRIDGE, JR. NEW YORK: THE FREE PRESS, 1996. author. Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School. In 1992 I published a book called…

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The Bluebook Blues

Richard A. Posner

120 Yale L.J. 850 (2011). 

The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation

By the Columbia Law Review, the Harvard Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and The Yale Law Journal

Cambridge, Mass.: The Harvard Law Review Association, 19th ed., 2010, pp. xvii, 511. $32.00 (paperbound).

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Justice Breyer Throws Down the Gauntlet

Richard A. Posner

115 Yale L.J. 1699 (2006)

A Supreme Court Justice writing a book about constitutional law is like a dog walking on his hind legs: The wonder is not that it is done well but that it is done at all. The dog's walking is inhibited by anatomical limitations, the Justice's writing by political ones. Supre…

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Animal Rights

Richard A. Posner

110 Yale L.J. 527 (2000)

The "animal rights" movement is gathering steam, and Steven Wise is one of the pistons. A lawyer whose practice is the protection of animals, he has now written a book in which he urges courts in the exercise of their common-law powers of legal rulemaking to confer legally en…