Comments on: Judge Posner in Second Life http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/11/28/judge-posner-in-second-life/ Information, Law, and the Law of Information Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:08:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: William McGeveran http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/11/28/judge-posner-in-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1536 William McGeveran Wed, 29 Nov 2006 03:59:15 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/11/28/judge-posner-in-second-life/#comment-1536 Ah, Tim, spoken like a good and loyal former John Minor Wisdom clerk!!! It's something of which you rightly should be proud. Indeed, he was a great judge. We actually started the whole course with a great opinion by him. There are other judges you could have nominated too. But I will stick to my characterization that Posner is the most <strong>influential</strong> since Hand, whether or not you always agree with him. Posner has written so much heavily-cited stuff, on so many topics, both on and off the bench, that I think it's hard to compare anybody to him. Ah, Tim, spoken like a good and loyal former John Minor Wisdom clerk!!!

It’s something of which you rightly should be proud. Indeed, he was a great judge. We actually started the whole course with a great opinion by him. There are other judges you could have nominated too.

But I will stick to my characterization that Posner is the most influential since Hand, whether or not you always agree with him. Posner has written so much heavily-cited stuff, on so many topics, both on and off the bench, that I think it’s hard to compare anybody to him.

]]> By: Tim Armstrong http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/11/28/judge-posner-in-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-1535 Tim Armstrong Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:57:31 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/11/28/judge-posner-in-second-life/#comment-1535 In fairness, I think you should tell your civil procedure students that in between Learned Hand and Richard Posner there were Henry Friendly and John Minor Wisdom, both frequently mentioned as appellate jurists whose opinions were comparable in influence to those of the Supreme Court. :-) In fairness, I think you should tell your civil procedure students that in between Learned Hand and Richard Posner there were Henry Friendly and John Minor Wisdom, both frequently mentioned as appellate jurists whose opinions were comparable in influence to those of the Supreme Court. :-)

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