Reviews for Ohio School Law, 1995-96

The average rating for Ohio School Law, 1995-96 based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-12-23 00:00:00 Edward Dyer A little known fact is that federal judges are limited in the extra-judicial income they're permitted to earn. Earnings from lecturing and speaking are limited, as are earnings from trafficking narcotics and identity theft. With such commonplace avenues of remuneration foreclosed, federal judges who find themselves in need of additional cash must resign themselves to writing books. And as any student of judicial decision-writing knows, America's judges are masters of plagiarism. Indeed, in law plagiarism is not only acceptable, but deeply institutionalized (cite the incorrect buzz language, and your lawsuit can be thrown out). Judges frequently even plagiarize themselves as a matter of course; such is the mechanism of the common law. Richard Posner knows this. Hence he is too wily to craft original material for his money-making books, and he even gleefully acknowledges this fact in an eary chapter of Overcoming Law, which conists mostly of recylced law review articles, speeches, and lectures. Nonetheless, this collection of essays contains many gems. Posner's literary style is lucid and logical, and he approaches intellectual tasks with a transparency and doggedly methodical spirit that typifies that of the genuinely well-intentioned scholar. As Overcoming Law demonstrates, the rewards of such a work ethic are compelling. A characteristically brilliant example is his "economic" analysis of "homosexuality." In that essay, Posner methodically studies the nature of sexual behaviour and preference within the rubric of rational choice. The result is an enlightening, persuasive, and at times amusing acount of why people--who are commonly though to follow their emotions in all things sexual--actually behave in the most brutally rational way when it comes to love and sexuality. His conclusions are bound to be at once amusing and embarassingly revealing. Not every essay in this book is a dead ringer, but at least half of them are. Any free-thinking individual with a stomach for beginner-level, exploratory philosphizing will be enriched and delighted with this collection of provocative works.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-10-27 00:00:00 Michelle Dees Very good!