Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

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About F. E. Guerra-Pujol

When I’m not blogging, I am a business law professor at the University of Central Florida.

Data journalist Jon Keegan scraped the DMV websites of all 50 States and discovered over 8,200 different license plates you might see on the road

See here; hat tip: Kottke.

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Taking the *con* out of constitutional law: yes, even Donald Trump is entitled to due process

Alternate Title: Critique of Baude & Paulsen (2023), Part 3 As you may have heard by now (see here, for example), multiple efforts are afoot in various States to disqualify Donald Trump from the ballot box under the disqualification clause … Continue reading

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Micro-review of *Travels with Tocqueville*

At the end of my previous post, I mentioned that I had just finished reading Travels with Tocqueville by Jeremy Jennings. Before I had read Professor Jennings’s intellectual biography of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859), I did not know much about … Continue reading

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Trump ballot disqualification update

Last Friday (1 Sept. 2023), a federal judge in South Florida decided that she lacks “subject matter jurisdiction” (i.e. judicial power) to decide whether Donald J. Trump is disqualified from running for president under the disqualification clause of the 14th … Continue reading

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Portrait of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, circa 1518 A.D.

Via Thomas Kole, check out this reconstruction of Tenochtitlan, the awe-inspiring island-metropolis of the Aztecs: “The year is 1518. Mexico-Tenochtitlan, once an unassuming settlement in the middle of Lake Texcoco, now a bustling metropolis. It is the capital of an … Continue reading

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A modest *Labor Day* proposal

I floated this idea once before: instead of celebrating just one measly day in honor of the working man, why can’t the most properous country in the world give all her workers two full weeks of paid time-off, say between … Continue reading

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Jimmy Buffet forever

I am sharing this particular video of Jimmy Buffet performing one of his lesser-known ballads because the first part of this film clip shows the legendary artist explaining the colorful origins of his tropical-rock composition “Cuban Crime of Passion”.

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Due process and the disqualification clause

Alternate Title: Critique of Baude & Paulsen (2023), Part 2 My previous two posts have featured a forthcoming law review article titled “The Sweep and Force of Section Three” by my conlaw colleagues William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen (pictured … Continue reading

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The limited sweep and ineffectual force of false analogies

Alternate Title: Critique of Baude & Paulsen (2023), Part 1 By way of background, my colleagues William Baude and Michael Stokes Paulsen recently posted to SSRN a 126-page law review article titled “The Sweep and Force of Section Three”. Among … Continue reading

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Trump versus the law professors

I took advantage of yesterday’s tropical cyclone (see my previous post) to finish reading some of the items on my end-of-summer reading list, including a 126-page law review article on “The Sweep and Force of Section Three” co-authored by my … Continue reading

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