Via Dan Markel, I see that Eric Posner has gone all independent on us by starting up a solo blog. And he already has a few great posts up, such as this “empirical study” of the social value of legal scholarship, in which Posner finds no evidence that Ronald Dworkin’s Law’s Empire had a favorable impact on stock market returns, as measured by the S&P 500 Index. My favorite, however, is this post on the pomposity/quality relationship in legal scholarship:
Welcome to the blawgosphere ericposner.com!
Any subject areas with fairly high "pomposity" and low "social value" I read as reminders of Posner's ideologically tendentious views in these fields and indicative of the meager academic merit of his work on same (most conspicuously, for example, international law).
Posted by: Patrick S. O'Donnell | January 04, 2014 at 02:05 PM
You know what I think is full of pomposity & low on social value? Making a chart that allegedly measures such elements - how petty.
Posted by: anon | January 04, 2014 at 09:00 PM
Why doesn't Posner Jr allow any comments on his blog?
Posted by: prior probability | January 04, 2014 at 09:31 PM