"Posner's most significant contribution has been in law and economics, the influential legal movement he practically created. (...) Looking at the world through

"Posner's most significant contribution has been in law and economics, the influential legal movement he practically created. (...) Looking at the world through a strictly economic lens, he writes with a refreshing, parsimonious intensity. He also, occasionally, produces outrageous conclusions, such as his contention in a 1999 article in the literary journal Raritan that the rule of law is an accidental and readily dispensable element of our legal ideology, and his argument in favor of buying and selling babies on the free market in lieu of government-regulated adoption. Add his advocacy of legal marijuana and LSD, and it is clear that Posner -- despite his obvious brilliance -- will never sit on the U.S. Supreme Court." - Robert S. Boynton, The Washington Post (20/1/2002) from http://www.complete-review.com/authors/posner.htm http://www.complete-review.com/authors/posner.htm. I've also read that Posner was deemed too old by either Clinton or Bush. Presidents want to have a lasting influence on the Court.