Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

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 →

On this day (2 March) in 1824, the Supreme Court of the United States announced its landmark decision in Gibbons v. Ogden (see also here), which forbade States from enacting protectionist legislation, i.e. local laws that interfere with the power … Continue reading →

Originally posted on prior probability:
Check out this excellent essay by Tom McTague, a London-based staff writer at The Atlantic. Among other things, McTague compares and contrasts the bravery of Ukraine with the shameful and calculating cowardice of her pusillanimous…

Pictured below are the short-essay questions in my module on “The Common Law”. The first question asks students to explain what did the great North American jurist and legal scholar Oliver Wendell Holmes mean when he wrote, “The life of … Continue reading →

On the strength of this review by the Amazing Tyler Cowen, I ordered and read The Guest Lecture, a magnificent piece of “intellectual fiction” about the world of academia by one Martin Riker, who teaches English literature at Washington University … Continue reading →

What does GPT-3 a/k/a ChatGPT think about the Wuhan lab-leak theory? In light of this Wall Street Journal report describing how officials at the FBI and the Department of Energy recently concluded with varying degrees of confidence that it was … Continue reading →

My favorite part of this all-time classic starts 55 seconds in and goes on from there until the end, but the jam around the three-minute mark is especially spicy!

Hello folks, today (Feb. 25) is my half-birthday! After a short hiatus this weekend, I will get back to it in the month of March. Among other things, I will continue my “Taking Posner Seriously” series , wrap up my … Continue reading →