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Professor of international law, presenting this program, please join me in welcoming them. [applause] thank you. Without further ado i thought i would plunge into a question for the judge and the biographer. Richard posner, when you were the age of some of the people in this room you were fabulous yates scholar interested in literature. What made you decide to go to law school . Law school was always the default graduate choice. I give some thought to graduate school, decided, not for me. I dont think i can stay. Harvard law school has a formative impression on you, i suppose . It launched you...

Thank you calling and without further ado i thought id pose a question first to the judge alternating between the joint and biographer. Mister posner, when you were the age of some of these people as an undergraduate at yale, but biography tells us you are a fabulous yates scholar, interested in literature. What made you decide to go to law school . Law school is always the default graduate choice for any college graduate. And my father was a lawyer and he gave some thought to going to graduate school in english but decided it was not for me so i dont think i consideredanything else. Harvard l...

Of lawyer and legal writer 30 years a author of three previous books and from the Connecticut School of law and english from university of california riverside. The United States court of appeals and senior lecturer joining in conversations tonight at the law school in is here please 22 bulk of them now. [applause] so now i will plunge into a question of the biographer so when you were the age of some of the people in this room as an undergrad as a fabulous scholar with interest in literature what made you decide to go to law school . And was the default graduate choice and my father was of la...

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In the road taken many of these authors have, or will be appearing on booktv. Watch them on our website, booktv. Org. Can i get everyones attention. I am the director here at george mason university. We have Deirdre Mccloskey here with my good friend. Deirdre came out with the third quality of her book bourgeois equality that builds on the bourgeois community. I think this collection is the most ambitious work in economics done during my career, at least in economics and just an amazing achievement for what you have done and generate the conversation in economics. Hopefully we will have a grea...