Richard Posner - 2024 ARCADIA

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>

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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


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
Missouri	Truman	0	10	0	10
Squidward Community College	WashU	0	0	0	0
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
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
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
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
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
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
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