[Eugene Volokh, August 20, 2008 at 12:16pm] Trackbacks
Eric Posner Joins Our Merry Band:

I'm delighted to report that Prof. Eric Posner of Chicago Law School is joining us as a coblogger.

Eric's scholarship has covered a wide range of topics, including administrative law, bankruptcy, constitutional law, contract law, foreign relations law, immigration law, international law, law and economics, law and social norms, and national security law. He has written or cowritten four books and ninety articles, and he's one of the twenty most-cited U.S. law professors in any field and of any age cohort, as well as being the second most-cited in law and economics (after Richard Epstein, who is more than twenty years his senior). I'm very much looking forward to Eric's contributions.

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faceword:
Sweet. Is he keeping the Becker-Posner blog going as well?
8.20.2008 1:26pm
faceword:
Er, can I pretend that comment was tongue-in-cheek?
8.20.2008 1:29pm
Snaphappy Fishsuit Mokiligon:
I think "co-blogger" is a word that should keep its hyphen. Otherwise it looks like it should be pronounced "cob logger"
8.20.2008 1:32pm
Eugene Volokh (www):
Well, does your name often get pronounced "Snafappy"? Maybe you need a hyphen, too.
8.20.2008 1:35pm
Michael F. Martin (mail) (www):
oh man. Now I'm never going to get any work done.
8.20.2008 1:37pm
bornyesterday (mail) (www):
I think I'll start hyphenating my name so you get the proper emphasis as well.

bo-rnyeste-rday
8.20.2008 1:40pm
T.J.:
For the uninitiated, are Eric and Richard Posner related?
8.20.2008 2:02pm
Viceroy:
T.J. - according to wikipedia, yes.

VC - congrats. I should note that there have been more than a few new members of the conspiracy whose output was less than prodigious.....
8.20.2008 2:04pm
guy in the veal calf office (mail) (www):
What is foreign relations law? Is that like 28 U.S.C. § 1738C?

Kidding.
8.20.2008 2:04pm
Dave N (mail):
I note that Professor Posner graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991 along with Barack Obama and that their careers at the University of Chicago may have overlapped (though that is less clear).

I will be interested in seeing if he wades into ongoing election discussion or whether he will wisely keep his own counsel.

Regardless, I look forward to his posts on his areas of expertise as well. Welcome aboard.
8.20.2008 2:14pm
KeithK (mail):
T.J. - to be specific, Eric is Richard's son (again according to Wikipedia).
8.20.2008 2:16pm
Cactus Jack:
This should help the Volokh.com Parlor of Law scholarly impact ranking.
8.20.2008 2:26pm
Snaphappy Fishsuit Mokiligon:
But that is how it's pronounced. I look forward to Prof. Posner's insights on logging cobs.
8.20.2008 2:31pm
titus32:
Quite a coup for the conspiracy. I missed him after the demise of the Convictions blog.
8.20.2008 2:56pm
convicted:
Convictions was never very good, but Posner was the best (and most readable) of the bunch. As for the elder Posner . . . I don't think he quite fits in here.
8.20.2008 3:06pm
concerned memorandist:
Any chance of landing John Yoo? :)
8.20.2008 3:07pm
Melancton Smith:
I dunno, can we trust the credentials of an UofC Con law professor? For some reason I seem to recall some of them having quite poor interpretations of certain Amendments...
8.20.2008 3:16pm
So-mething-Wicked:
"I can't recall" if Alberto Gonzales is available, maybe he could join too. ;)
8.20.2008 3:21pm
martinned (mail) (www):
@convicted: Huh? What do we have against the older Posner? Even though I might not necessarily agree with his politics in every instance, when it comes to law and economics, he is god.
8.20.2008 3:46pm
gsmcneal (www):
Wow, great land for the VC. If his blogging at the short-lived Convictions site is any indication, he will be a great and prolific addition.
8.20.2008 4:14pm
PLR:
What is foreign relations law? Is that like 28 U.S.C. § 1738C?

No, but try this one:

"I did not have foreign relations with that Olympic javelin competitor from Paraguay. Yet."
8.20.2008 4:22pm
James Gibson (mail):
Martinned asked: What do we have against the older Posner?...when it comes to law and economics, he is god.

I'll interpret your statement as meaning he's god on business law. However on military tactics and American history he's hardly perfect. His recent commentary on the Heller ruling shows he neither recognises the existence of the 1792 Militia Act or how war was fought in the late 18th and early 19th century. If the United States had followed his procedures for a viable militia we would have lost the revolution or had our heads handed to us during the war of 1812.
8.20.2008 5:02pm
typo alert:
I'll interpret your statement as meaning he's god on business law.


High praise indeed.
8.20.2008 5:25pm
LM (mail):
As much as I think of the VC bloggers, with a couple of possible exceptions the word "merry" doesn't pop to mind.
8.20.2008 5:33pm
Humble Law Student (mail) (www):
Wohoo!!!!! I love EP's work. As to blogging, he did a great job keeping those libs on Convictions honest.
8.20.2008 6:10pm
Kat (www):
Great addition! (Oh man, does this mean I'm going to spend even more time reading VC now...?)
8.20.2008 6:47pm
michael:
Excellent. Looking forward to reading EP's posts, and, being an incoming freshman, taking a class from him in the near future.
8.20.2008 7:02pm
Viceroy:
gsmcneal - good catch. I meant prolific. Prodigious works as well, just not as well. Seriously, we've had a ton of new bloggers who blog for a bit (Judge Cassell) and then just taper out. I guess that's typical, but I'm wondering whether the VC folks ask for some sort of commitment?

It takes a lot of work on our end as readers to get a feel for someone. To have them leave is costly.
8.20.2008 7:31pm
Eugene Volokh (www):
Viceroy: Our policy is that our bloggers are free to blog as often or as rarely as they'd like. That's one way we lure them in; if we ask for a commitment, they might quite understandably decline.

I hadn't thought of this as causing "a lot of work" for you as readers, but I hope that reading our blog is work that's rewarding for its own sake.
8.20.2008 8:22pm
martinned (mail) (www):
@James Gibson: I was actually thinking of exactly what I wrote: Law &Economics. Such as:

"Natural Monopoly and Its Regulation," 21 Stanford Law Review 518 (1969).
"Taxation by Regulation," 2 Bell Journal of Economics &Management Science 22 (1971).
"A Theory of Negligence," 1 Journal of Legal Studies 29 (1972).
"An Economic Approach to Legal Procedure and Judicial Administration," 2 Journal of Legal Studies 399 (1973).
"An Economic Analysis of Legal Rulemaking," 3 Journal of Legal Studies 257 (1974) (with Isaac Ehrlich).
"Theories of Economic Regulation," 5 Bell Journal of Economics &Management Science 155 (1974).

And that's just some of the early stuff. The full list is here. (And, to be fair, this is the publication list for junior.)
8.20.2008 8:32pm
A.S.:
"I did not have foreign relations with that Olympic javelin competitor from Paraguay. Yet."

You wish.
8.20.2008 11:46pm
Tom Tildrum:
Hasn't EP been doing a gig at Slate?
8.21.2008 12:04am
Joe Bingham (mail):
Sweet Moses, a Chicago contingent!
8.21.2008 11:13am