Question
This scholar indicated that potential political ramifications do influence court decisions in unorthodox cases in his book How Judges Think. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this former judge on the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit who, despite never being nominated to the Supreme Court, is likely America’s most-cited legal scholar.
ANSWER: Richard Posner [or Richard Allen Posner]
[10m] Posner’s decision in Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad v. American Cyanamid Co. is often taught in first-year classes on this kind of law, which focuses on civil wrongs outside the purview of criminal liability.
ANSWER: tort law [or torts]
[10e] Posner is associated with an interdisciplinary movement named for law and this other field; he maintained a blog with this field’s University of Chicago professor, Nobel laureate, and human capital proponent Gary Becker.
ANSWER: economics [accept law and economics]
<GT, Social Science>
Summary
| 2024 ARCADIA at BU | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 20.00 | 100% | 60% | 40% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Duke | 2024-12-06 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Missouri S&T | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 5.00 | 0% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA Online | 2025-05-17 | Y | 5 | 24.00 | 100% | 100% | 40% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Penn State | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Florida Tech | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley | 2024-12-06 | Y | 2 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo | 2024-11-09 | Y | 6 | 18.33 | 83% | 100% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at GT | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 40% | 60% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Illinois | 2024-11-09 | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Warwick | 2024-12-06 | Y | 5 | 10.00 | 60% | 40% | 0% |
| 2024 ARCADIA at Claremont | 2024-11-02 | Y | 3 | 23.33 | 100% | 100% | 33% |
Data
| Boston College B | Tufts A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Bowdoin A | Clark Wilson | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Harvard | Bowdoin B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Bowdoin C | Clark House | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Yale | Amherst | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Missouri | Truman | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Squidward Community College | WashU | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ASU->Stanford->ASU pipeline | Toyota Tundra Turbos — Twisting Truths - Tackling Trivia - Taming Titans | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| In the Mood for Buzz | Paddington in Peru (2024) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Madmen and Specialists | Old and Young | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| The cult of SGA | she limp on my waltz till i feel pathetique | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Social credit go vroom | bingy academy | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Pitt | Penn State | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Maryland | RIT | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| UF A | UF B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| UF C | UCF A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Berkeley Past | Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Berkeley A | Stanford | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| McMaster ApocolocyntosisBidii | Carleton A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Ottawa Absolomabsolomabsolom | Toronto Chestnut Rice and Kamehameha | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto A | McGill A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Waterloo Aspidistra | Toronto B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Waterloo Basic | Toronto Metropolitan A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Toronto Disband the Club 2k24 | Waterloo Cloze | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech C | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech D | Lambert | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Innovation Academy A | Georgia Tech B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Creek | Milton | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Mississippi State | Innovation Academy B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chicago A | Chicago B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Illinois Blue | Illinois Orange | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Notre Dame | SIUE | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Purdue A | Purdue B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| South Carolina | North Carolina B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Virginia Tech A | North Carolina A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Virginia Tech B | Virginia Tech C | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Imperial B | Bristol | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Cambridge A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Cambridge B | LSE B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Warwick A | LSE A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Warwick C | Warwick B | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| ALCU | Anderson et al. | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Claremont | U[C]SD | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| SGV Ventures | Jason et al. | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |