Victor Posner, who had made a fortune in real estate investments in the 1930s and 1940s, acquired a major stake in DWG Corporation in 1966.

Similar to the approach employed in the McLean transaction, the use of publicly traded holding companies as investment vehicles to acquire portfolios of investments in corporate assets was a relatively new trend in the 1960s, popularized by the likes of Warren Buffett ( Berkshire Hathaway ) and Victor Posner ( DWG Corporation ), and later adopted by Nelson Peltz ( Triarc ), Saul Steinberg ( Reliance Insurance ) and Gerry Schwartz ( Onex Corporation ).

Similar to the approach employed in the McLean transaction, the use of publicly traded holding companies as investment vehicles to acquire portfolios of investments in corporate assets was a relatively new trend in the 1960s popularized by the likes of Warren Buffett ( Berkshire Hathaway ) and Victor Posner ( DWG Corporation ) and later adopted by Nelson Peltz ( Triarc ), Saul Steinberg ( Reliance Insurance ) and Gerry Schwartz ( Onex Corporation ).

Pioneers of brain imaging studies of selective attention are psychologist Michael I. Posner ( then already renowned for his seminal work on visual selective attention ) and neurologist Marcus Raichle.

Writing in 2001, legal scholar Richard Posner described Uncle Tom's Cabin as part of the mediocre list of canonical works that emerges when political criteria are imposed on literature.

Two of the leading law schools focusing on Law and Economics are the University of Chicago Law School, whose faculty includes Judge Richard A. Posner, Ronald Coase and Gary Becker, and the George Mason University School of Law, whose faculty used to include Nobel laureate Vernon Smith ( though Smith and his team have since moved to Chapman University ), and perennial Nobel finalist Gordon Tullock.

Some economists believe that such coercive monopolies are beneficial because of greater economies of scale and because they are more likely to act in the national interest, while Judge Richard Posner famously argued in Natural Monopoly and Its Regulation that the deadweight losses associated with regulating such monopolies were greater than any possible benefit.

Posner uses the case-by-case balancing test envisioned by Justice Powell, writing: The federal interest in cooperating in the criminal proceedings of friendly foreign nations is obvious ; and it is likewise obvious that newsgathering and reporting activities of the press are inhibited when a reporter cannot assure a confidential source of confidentiality.

In one scene, a group of Indian children from the school go into town for ice cream and are refused service and then abused and humiliated by Bernard Posner and his gang.

Books published by Pantheon in 2007 that are doing well ( ranked by number of holdings in libraries according to OCLC Worldcat ) are: The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith, The Little Book of Plagiarism by Richard Posner, Bambi vs. Godzilla: On the Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business by David Mamet, and Toussaint Louverture: A Biography by Madison Smartt Bell.

Among critics of Barak's judicial activism are former President of the Supreme Court of Israel Moshe Landau, Ruth Gavison, and Richard Posner.

Some of the IFA's more notable graduates include Robert Rosenblum, Linda Nochlin, Donald Posner, Marvin Trachtenberg, Priscilla Soucek, Edward J. Sullivan, Mariët Westermann, Robert Lubar, Thelma Thomas, and Katherine Welch, all of whom taught or are currently teaching at the IFA ; Frederick Hartt ; Robert Goldwater ; John Hayes ; Leo Steinberg ; Lucy Lippard ; Susan Vogel and Zainab Bahrani, professors at Columbia ; Slobodan Curcic, professor at Princeton ; Tim Barringer, professor at Yale ; Philippe de Montebello, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ( currently teaching at the IFA ); Charles Little, William Wixom, Ian Wardropper, Barbara Boehm, and Nadine Orenstein, curators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Anne Poulet, director of the Frick Collection ; and artist Philip Pearlstein.

Almost without exception, these clerks are graduates of elite law schools ( with Harvard, Yale, and the University of Chicago being the most highly represented schools ) who have already clerked for at least one year with highly selective federal circuit court judges ( such as Judges Alex Kozinski, Harvie Wilkinson, David Tatel, Richard Posner ).

Florida Today, April 24, 2000: “ The industry standard belongs perhaps to lawyer-turned-investigative reporter Gerald Posner, whose meticulous Case Closed in 1993 was an immersion into assassination minutiae .”< p >

Judge Robert Bork's writings on anti-trust law, along with those of Richard Posner and other law and economics thinkers, were heavily influential in causing a shift in the U. S. Supreme Court's approach to antitrust laws since the 1970s, to be focused solely on what is best for the consumer rather than the company's practices.

* The Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma by Plum and Posner, ISBN 0-19-513898-8, remains one the of best detailed observational references to the condition.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Posner ( also spelled " Pozner "; in Russian, Владимир Владимирович Познер ), born 1 April 1934, is a Russian journalist best known in the West for appearing on television to represent and explain the views of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Richard Posner ( b. 1939 ) is known primarily for his work in law and economics, though Robert Solow describes Posner's grasp of economics as " precarious ".

Professor Becker keeps a blog with well known academic and judge, Richard Posner.

The opinion was written by Judge Richard Posner, known for his publications on law and economics, and followed closely on the heels of the Ninth Circuit's decision in A & M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc. 239 F. 3d ( 9th Cir.

Together with his better known brother-in-law, Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, Director influenced a generation of jurists, including Robert Bork, Richard Posner, Antonin Scalia and Chief Justice William Rehnquist.

Posner criticizes privacy for concealing information, which reduces market efficiency.

After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard Posner, at the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, Illinois and another year for Justice Antonin Scalia at the Supreme Court.

As a law clerk, however, he worked for both Judge Richard Posner and Justice Antonin Scalia, two influential conservative judges.

* Kenneth Posner, lighting designer for such Broadway shows as Wicked, Legally Blonde, The Pirate Queen, and The Coast of Utopia, the latter of which won him a Tony award.

Functional leadership theory ( Hackman & Walton, 1986 ; McGrath, 1962 ; Adair, 1988 ; Kouzes & Posner, 1995 ) is a particularly useful theory for addressing specific leader behaviors expected to contribute to organizational or unit effectiveness.

The term for this disorder was coined by Fred Plum and Jerome Posner in 1966.

This record was broken less than a month later in Claremont, California, when John-Clark Levin and George Posner shook hands for 15 hours, 15 minutes, and 15 seconds.

* The cost-benefit analysis, first introduced by Judge Posner from the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in the Aimster case, holds that a manufacturer of technological device will enjoy the Sony safe-harbor only if "... it would have been disproportionately costly for him to eliminate or at least reduce substantially the infringing uses.

Speakers included Voter March founder Lou Posner, singer songwriter Patti Smith, former Students for a Democratic Society President professor Todd Gitlin, author / professor Mark Crispin Miller, and Democrats. com founder Bob Fertik.

" Most Supreme Court clerks have clerked in a lower court, often for a year with a highly selective federal circuit court judge ( such as Judges Alex Kozinski, Michael Luttig, J. Harvie Wilkinson, David Tatel, Richard Posner, to name a few ).

Leadership authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner advise mentors to look for " teachable moments " in order to " expand or realize the potentialities of the people in the organizations they lead " and underline that personal credibility is as essential to quality mentoring as skill.

Important figures include the Nobel Prize winning economists Ronald Coase and Gary Becker, U. S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit judges Frank Easterbrook and Richard Posner, Andrei Shleifer and other distinguished scholars such as Robert Cooter, Henry Manne, William Landes, and A. Mitchell Polinsky.

Seventeen years later, in their mathematical law and economics article " An Economic Analysis of Copyright Law " ( 1989 ), William Landes and Richard Posner systematically analyzed each of Breyer's arguments and concluded that " they do not make a persuasive case for eliminating copyright protection.

Bugliosi condemned the U. S. Supreme Court's decision in the Bush v. Gore decision that decided the 2000 presidential election. Louis Posner of Voter March, with Vincent Bugliosi ( left ) at New York City Speaking TourHe wrote a lengthy criticism of the case for The Nation titled " None Dare Call It Treason ," which he later expanded into a book titled The Betrayal of America.

During 2001 and 2002, Lou Posner of Voter March organized speaking tours in New York City and Voter West in California for Vincent Bugliosi.

It is also notable for having two of the most prominent law and economics scholars, Chief Judge Easterbrook and Judge Posner, on its court.

On July 1, 2009, Drew Starbird became the Acting Dean of the Leavey School, following the departure of Barry Posner, who had served as Dean for 12 years and returned to the Management faculty.

* Michael H. Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U. S. Department of State

Judge Richard Posner is " one of the founding fathers of Bluebook abolitionism, having advocated it for almost twenty-five years, ever since his 1986 University of Chicago Law Review article on the subject.

In 1988, DynCorp went private to avoid a hostile takeover by Miami financier Victor Posner.