Monthly Archives: July 2023

I could not go all the way to San Diego without visiting my favorite place in the world: my beloved Mexico! As an added bonus, my son Kleber is in town this weekend, so we crossed the border together. Memo … Continue reading →

I have been in “America’s finest city” this week attending the annual meeting of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business (my penultimate trip this summer). Below is a small sample of some of my San Diego snapshots:

Are Hollywood and Broadway the last bastions of sexism? The Bechdel test asks whether a play, motion picture, or TV show features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man. Although this now-iconic … Continue reading →

To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the publication of my 2013 law review article “Gödel’s Loophole” (my most downloaded paper by far), I just posted to SSRN a new work-in-progress titled “Gödel’s Loophole 2.0“, which is now available here. (I … Continue reading →

On this day (25 July) in 1868, the Territory of Wyoming officially becomes an incorporated territory of the United States. (The Congress later admitted Wyoming to the Union on 10 July 1890.) To commemorate this occasion, I am sharing this … Continue reading →

Six copies of The Godfather and Philosophy: An Argument You Can’t Refute arrived in my mailbox while I was out of town! (I wrote one of the chapters for this volume: “Ronald Coase and the Corleones.” An ungated copy of … Continue reading →

Honest question: now that Barack Obama has put out his annual summer reading list (pictured below), an Obama tradition going back to at least 2016 (see here), I wonder what books, if any(!), are on Joe Biden, Ron DeSantis, or … Continue reading →