Contents

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INTRODUCTORY MATERIALS
by RAY WOODCOCK

Praising Richard Posner
Questioning Richard Posner
This Book's Method

THE BOOK ITSELF

Introduction:  Where Law and Jurisprudence Started

PART ONE:
LAW:  HOW WE KNOW

Chapter 1:  Law Isn't Really a Science

Chapter 2:  Sometimes Law Is Like Common Sense
Chapter 3:  How Much We've Learned About Law
Chapter 4:  Are Judges For Real?

PART TWO:
LAW:  WHAT WE KNOW

Chapter 5:  What Exists Outside My Head
Chapter 6:  The Judge and Jury May Try to Get It Right
Chapter 7:  Do We Even Know What "Law" Is?

PART THREE:
LAW:  INTERPRETING IT

Chapter 8:  Who Needs Congress When You've Got Judges?
Chapter 9:  Fun with Statutes
Chapter 10:  To Hell with Statutes

PART FOUR:
LAW:  WHAT IT SAYS

Chapter 11:  Justice Is What I Say It Is
Chapter 12:  Law Is Sort of Like Economics
Chapter 13:  More Ways to Misunderstand Law

PART FIVE:
LAW:  WINGING IT

Chapter 14:  Back to the Future
Chapter 15:  A Toast to Naked Judges