Douglas G. Baird

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Common Law Judging in an Age of Statutes
Douglas G. Baird
Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor, The University of Chicago Law School.

I thank Sam Capparelli for his help, and I am grateful to the Frank Greenberg Fund for research support.

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Unlikely Resurrection: Richard Posner, Promissory Estoppel, and The Death of Contract
Douglas G. Baird
Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor, The University of Chicago Law School

I thank Saul Levmore for his thoughtful comments. The Frank Greenberg Fund provided generous research support for this Essay.

Many of Richard Posner’s opinions boldly confront great questions. But equally important are those that, in the aggregate, illuminate discrete areas of the law and make them easier to understand.

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Bankruptcy from Olympus
Douglas G. Baird
Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor, The University of Chicago Law School

I am most grateful to Matthew Stoker for assistance and the Sarah Scaife Foundation, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Fund, and the John M. Olin Foundation for support.

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In Memoriam: Abner J. Mikva (1926–2016)
Douglas G. Baird
Harry A. Bigelow Distinguished Service Professor of Law, The University of Chicago Law School.

By the time I came to the Law School, Abner Mikva was firmly ensconced as a judge on the DC Circuit. He was one of the white-haired legal giants standing beside the likes of Judges Skelly Wright and David Bazelon, someone who looked as if he had always worn a judicial robe.