Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

That is the topic of this new paper by Alex Edmans, a finance professor and the managing editor of the prestigious Review of Finance, the official publication of the European Finance Association. In a nutshell, Professor Edmans explains why he … Continue reading →

Toward the end of my previous Posner post, which highlighted Oliver Wendell Holmes’s three-paragraph dissent in Lochner v. New York, I shouted out Sex and Reason (1992), perhaps Richard A. Posner’s most controversial work. In short, I was so impressed … Continue reading →

According to this report, a Republican State Senator by the name of Jason Brodeur (pictured below next to the swastica symbol), who represents Lake Mary in Central Florida, has drafted a draconian bill (see here) that would require bloggers who … Continue reading →

I wish every profession were organized like Major League Baseball: spring training (February and March), the regular season (April to September), the playoffs (October), and the off-season or winter break (November to January). In any case, I will take a … Continue reading →

With this post I shall bring my chapter-by-chapter review of Rule of Law by Tom Bingham to a close. In the epilogue to his book, Judge Bingham concludes by describing “The Allegory of Good Government” (pictured in part above), a … Continue reading →

The last chapter of Tom Bingham’s book Rule of Law (Chapter 12) explores a fascinating constitutional anomaly, at least in Britain where the Parliament is the ultimate sovereign. On the one hand, the rule of law at a minimum means … Continue reading →

I am lumping together my review of Chapters 9, 10, and 11 of Rule of Law by Tom Bingham because all three chapters deal with one aspect or another of today’s post-9/11 world, a world in which the rule of … Continue reading →

Since 20 January (see here), I have reviewed in fits and starts the first half of Rule of Law by Tom Bingham (Chs. 1 to 7). This weekend, I will try to bring this project to a close by reviewing … Continue reading →

My previous Posner post was devoted to my accidental discovery of Richard A. Posner’s Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relation in December of 2000 and how this tome radically altered my negative Posnerian priors. For me, the most memorable part … Continue reading →