Richard Posner has died

Posner had a significant influence on the Microsoft antitrust trial back in 1999-2001, both his legal thinking before the trial and being appointed by the judge in that trial to serve (ultimately unsuccessfully) as a mediator amidst the trial.

Posner did more than anyone else to consign law to a branch of economics, specifically economics as understood by the Chicago School.

Age 87. I had to read some stuff by him a long time ago.

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