The Mystery of Richard Posner
The question posed by the article, and reviewed therein -- namely, &quot;what did Posner really think of the law?&quot; -- is comprehensively answered in Posner&#x27;s own book &quot;The Problems of Jurisprudence.&quot;  It is an excellent and sadly overlooked work, which contains fascinating comparisons between natural law and positive law.<p>The article makes Posner&#x27;s support of pro se litigants in his final years seem crazy and haphazard, like a side-effect of his Alzheimer&#x27;s diagnosis.  And maybe it was, but Posner&#x27;s heart was in the right place: Pro se litigants are taken advantage of by the legal system and have the deck stacked against them.  Bigtime.  In civil cases, even most middle class people can&#x27;t afford to hire lawyers, and are forced to knuckle under and settle, or fight and probably lose.  This gives people the impression that &quot;justice&quot; can be bought, and it&#x27;s not necessarily a wrong impression.  Posner was responding, in a way, to a great and longstanding injustice.