I will return to Part 2 of David Hume’s essay “Of Miracles” and to Adam Smith’s treatment of taxes in Book 5, Chapter 2 of The Wealth of Nations next month. In the meantime, I want to survey the first 20 years or so of my scholarly life, something I have been meaning to do since my sabbatical last fall. In summary, after living in Paris in the summer of 1998, I began teaching Roman and Constitutional Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico in the fall of that same year and published my first paper in La Revista de Derecho Puertorriqueño in the spring of 1999. Since then, I have visited almost 40 countries across five continents, published over 60 more scholarly papers, contributed five chapters to various books, and co-authored two college textbooks. In my next post, I will survey my first few published papers.