The Open Mind: Here Comes The Judge, Part 1.

Guest: Richard A. Posner, Federal Judge, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, Chicago
Taped: 03/11/2002
Premiered in May 1956, Open Mind was created and hosted by Richard D. Heffner, American historian, broadcaster, and University Professor of Communications and Public Policy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Fifty years after its first broadcast, Open Mind continues with a new host, Mr. Heffner's grandson, Alexander Heffner. Open Mind as a weekly public affairs program was designed to elicit guests' most meaningful insights into the challenges Americans face in a variety of contemporary areas of national concern.
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[@patrickj.sobkowski2341]

Judge Posner is a brilliant thinker. For my money, the smartest person ever to sit on the federal courts outside of Justice Holmes.

[@christopherrobbins9985]

Posner has a such a clear way of explaining the limits of the law.
Search for truth is not primary function of USCJS.

[@oscarg7460]

The guilty benefit more under USA jurisprudence? Then what accounts for our enormous prison/jail population?

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

“The lawyer’s job is to say what the client would say if the client were learned in the law.” - The English do say the cleverest things when they speak in English.

[@tomasdejesuslariospalacios2950]

I agree that the British inquisitorial system has more active judges. But in the American, British or any other system in the world, judges must permit the search of the truth.