Guest Speaker
Richard A. Posner
This year's distinguished guest lecturer is Judge Richard A. Posner, the intellectual father of economic analysis of law. Judge Posner will be awarded honorary doctorate degrees by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on September 17 and by the University of Athens on September 18.
Richard A. Posner is the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.
Judge Posner will deliver three lectures in Greece:
- "Economic Analysis of Law: An Essential Tool for Legal Theory and Practice" (Speech for the honorary doctorate award ceremony at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Sept. 17, 2002)
- "Rational Choice, Law, and Democracy" (Speech for the honorary doctorate award ceremony at the University of Athens, Sept. 18, 2002)
- "Formal versus Substantive Economic Theories of Law" (EALE Guest Lecture, Sept. 20, 2002)
To find out more about Judge Posner, you can visit his homepage: