He says that many judicial orders and findings of fact are cribbed from the lawyers in a case, without attribution (p. 21), that little value is ascribed to judicial originality -- sometimes it is actually disapproved, on the grounds that it tends to destabilize law, and that the Solicitor General signs briefs he hasn't written (p. 26) (as do partners in law firms).To Posner, none of this creates a problem, for reasons I will shortly dispute. [read post]