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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Eric A. Posner is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within economics and social sciences, focusing notably on the intersections of law, economics, and public policy.

Their scholarly output includes numerous contributions to the study of economics, econometrics, and finance, as well as social sciences. Subfields in which they have published cover economics and econometrics, political science and international relations, strategy and management, sociology and political science, and public administration.

Key topics addressed in Eric A. Posner's work include merger and competition analysis, American constitutional law and politics, legal and constitutional studies, labor movements and unions, global trade and economics, global trade, sustainability and social impact, along with digital economy and work transformation.

Among their recent papers are:

  • The Political Economy of the Decline of Antitrust Enforcement in the United States, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Labor Monopsony and the Limits of the Law, 2021, The Journal of Human Resources
  • The Political Economy of the Decline in Antitrust Enforcement in the United States, 2022, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Roberts Court and the Transformation of Constitutional Protections for Religion: A Statistical Portrait, 2022, The Supreme Court Review
  • Policy Implications of the Common Ownership Debate, 2021, The Antitrust Bulletin

Eric A. Posner has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Filippo Lancieri, Luigi Zingales, Jonathan S. Masur, Thomas Hasenzagl, and Kyle Herkenhoff.

Their publications have appeared extensively in the SSRN Electronic Journal, as well as in Behavioural Public Policy, Revista de Direito Administrativo, The Journal of Human Resources, and The Supreme Court Review.

In addition to journal articles, Eric A. Posner has authored books published by eBooks, including the work titled ": " published in 2020.

Eric A. Posner has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2010.

Best Publications

  • Law and Social Norms

    Eric A. Posner

  • Rethinking Cost-Benefit Analysis

    Matthew D. Adler;Eric A. Posner

  • A Theory of Customary International Law

    Jack L. Goldsmith;Eric A. Posner

  • Economic Analysis of Contract Law after Three Decades: Success or Failure?

    Eric A. Posner

  • Judicial Independence in International Tribunals

    Eric A. Posner;John C. Yoo

  • The limits of international law

    Jack L. Goldsmith;Eric A. Posner

  • A Theory of Contract Law under Conditions of Radical Judicial Error

    Eric A. Posner

  • Law, economics, and inefficient norms

    Eric A. Posner

  • Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts

    Eric A. Posner;Adrian Vermeule

  • New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis

    Matthew D. Adler;Eric A. Posner

  • Interring the Nondelegation Doctrine

    Eric A. Posner;Adrian Vermeule

  • Law and Social Norms: The Case of Tax Compliance

    Eric A. Posner

  • The Twilight of Human Rights Law

    Eric A. Posner

  • Symbols, Signals, and Social Norms in Politics and the Law

    Eric A. Posner

  • The Regulation of Groups: The Influence of Legal and Nonlegal Sanctions on Collective Action

    Eric A. Posner

  • Contract Law in the Welfare State: A Defense of the Unconscionability Doctrine, Usury Laws, and Related Limitations on the Freedom to Contract

    Eric A. Posner

  • SHAMING WHITE-COLLAR CRIMINALS: A PROPOSAL FOR REFORM OF THE FEDERAL SENTENCING GUIDELINES*

    Dan M. Kahan;Eric A. Posner

  • Controlling Agencies with Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Positive Political Theory Perspective

    Eric A. Posner

  • Implementing Cost-Benefit Analysis when Preferences are Distorted

    Matthew D. Adler;Eric A. Posner

  • Antitrust Remedies for Labor Market Power

    Suresh Naidu;Eric A. Posner;E. Glen Weyl

  • Is the International Court of Justice Biased

    Eric A. Posner;Miguel F. P. de Figueiredo

  • Transitional Justice as Ordinary Justice

    Eric A. Posner;Adrian Vermeule

  • Moral and Legal Rhetoric in International Relations: A Rational Choice Perspective

    Jack L. Goldsmith;Eric A. Posner

  • The Design and Interpretation of Contracts: Why Complexity Matters

    Eric A. Posner;Karen Eggleston;Richard Zeckhauser

  • Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society

    Eric A. Posner;E. Glen Weyl

  • The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic

    Eric A. Posner;Adrian Vermeule

  • The Limits of International Law

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan O. Sykes
Alan O. Sykes Stanford University
Adrian Vermeule
Adrian Vermeule Harvard University
Stephen J. Choi
Stephen J. Choi New York University
G. Mitu Gulati
G. Mitu Gulati University of Virginia
Cass R. Sunstein
Cass R. Sunstein Harvard University
Jack Landman Goldsmith
Jack Landman Goldsmith Harvard University
Richard A. Epstein
Richard A. Epstein New York University
Randal C. Picker
Randal C. Picker University of Chicago
Lee Epstein
Lee Epstein Washington University in St. Louis
Dan M. Kahan
Dan M. Kahan Yale University

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