Richard A. Posner

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1. Richard A. Posner

   Author of Overcoming Law, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline, With a New Preface and Epilogue, Sex and Reason

2. Ronald Dworkin

   Author of A Matter of Principle, Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution, The Philosophy of Law (Oxford Readings in Philosophy)

3. Richard Rorty

   Author of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Essays on Heidegger and Others, Truth and Progress

4. John Rawls

   Author of A Theory of Justice, Political Liberalism, Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy

5. F. A. Hayek

   Author of Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 1: Rules and Order, Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 2: The Mirage of Social Justice, Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume 3: The Political Order of a Free People

6. Gary S. Becker

   Author of The Economics of Life: From Baseball to Affirmative Action to Immigration, How Real-World Issues Affect Our Everyday Lif, Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education, Accounting for Tastes

7. Cass R. Sunstein

   Author of Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts are Wrong for America, Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict, The Partial Constitution

8. H. L. A. Hart

   Author of The Concept of Law, Law, Liberty, and Morality, Punishment and Responsibility: Essays in the Philosophy of Law

9. Leo Strauss

   Author of History of Political Philosophy, Natural Right and History, Thoughts on Machiavelli

10. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

    Author of The Common Law, The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Hol

11. Isaiah Berlin

    Author of Four Essays on Liberty, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, The Power of Ideas

12. Michael Walzer

    Author of Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality, On Toleration (Castle Lectures Series), Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad (FRANK COVEY LOYOLA L)

13. Martha C. Nussbaum

    Author of Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions, Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education, Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life

14. Antonin Scalia

    Author of A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law (The University Center for Human Values Series), Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges

15. Anthony Lewis

    Author of Gideon's Trumpet, Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment, Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment

16. David P. Currie

    Author of The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The First Hundred Years, 1789-1888, The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The Second Century, 1888-1986, The Constitution in Congress: The Jeffersonians, 1801-1829

17. Robert Nozick

    Author of Anarchy, State and Utopia, The Nature of Rationality

18. Milton Friedman

    Author of Capitalism and Freedom, A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, Price Theory

19. George J. Stigler

    Author of The theory of price, The Intellectual and the Market Place: And Other Essays, The Organization of Industry

20. Robert H. Bork

    Author of The Tempting of America, Antitrust Paradox