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100

Richard Posner was born in this city. 

Answer: What is New York City?

100

What did Posner become a professor of at the University of Chicago?

Answer: Law

100

Posner pioneered this approach to law during the 1970s.

Answer: What is the economic analysis of law?

100

Posner served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit for this many years.

What is 36 years?

200

Posner was accepted into this university at age 16.

What is Yale University?

200

Which university did Posner teach at for many years?

Answer: University of Chicago

200

This 1972 book became a major work in the field of law and economics.

What is Economic Analysis of Law?

200

Posner wrote more than this many books.

What is 40?

300

Posner mainly focused on this subject while at Yale.

What is English?

300

What type of court did Posner serve on?

Answer: U.S. Court of Appeals

300

Posner connected law to these two concepts.

Answer: What are efficiency and consequence?

300

Posner authored more than this many articles.

Answer: What is 500?

400

Posner attended this law school after Yale.

What is Harvard Law School?

400

What position did Posner hold from 1993–2000?

Answer: Chief Judge

400

Posner is associated with these three ideas in his approach to law.

Answer : What are pragmatism, realism, and questioning?

400

Posner received this medal in 2010.

What is the Ronald H. Coase Medal? 

500

Posner graduated from Harvard Law School in this year as president and valedictorian of his class. HINT ( 196# )

Answer: What is 1962?

500

What year did Posner retire from the court? --HINT (in the past decade ) 

Answer: 2017

500

Posner questioned legal doctrines by asking this fundamental question.

Answer: What is “What purpose do they serve? Why do they exist?”

500

Posner received this medal for excellence in federal jurisprudence in 2005. - most important 

Answer: What is the Learned Hand Medal?


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