The question posed by the article, and reviewed therein -- namely, "what did Posner really think of the law?" -- is comprehensively answered in Posner's own book "The Problems of Jurisprudence." It is an excellent and sadly overlooked work, which contains fascinating comparisons between natural law and positive law.<p>The article makes Posner's support of pro se litigants in his final years seem crazy and haphazard, like a side-effect of his Alzheimer's diagnosis. And maybe it was, but Posner'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't afford to hire lawyers, and are forced to knuckle under and settle, or fight and probably lose. This gives people the impression that "justice" can be bought, and it's not necessarily a wrong impression. Posner was responding, in a way, to a great and longstanding injustice.