Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

I have two confessions to make today. One is that I have a paid subscription to The New Yorker (since 1995!); the other is that I am New Yorker subscriber just for the cartoons, like the one posted below!

Note: This is the second in a series of blog posts in honor of Richard Posner In a previous post, I described Richard Posner as “one of the greatest legal theorists and thinkers in history, on a par with such … Continue reading →

Note: Thus far, I have reviewed the first three chapters of Tom Bingham’s classic Rule of Law. (See here, here, and here.) Today, I will review Chapter 4. Judge Bingham draws a key distinction between “judgment” and “discretion” in Chapter … Continue reading →

I am taking a break from my break from blogging (sorry!) to report that the new edition of my undergraduate textbook Business Law and Strategy, which I co-wrote with my esteemed business law colleagues Sean Melvin and David Orozco, was … Continue reading →

I will resume blogging in the next day or two. In the meantime, below are a few more pictures of our new puppy Nugget:

Following up on this prompt from Sheree via Bee H. (see here), I am posting two songs “specific to me and my beloved” (Sydjia, my wife of 10+ years now) from 2010, the year we started dating. The first one … Continue reading →

That is the question posed in this recent essay/intellectual biography “The Mystery of Richard Posner” by one Corbin K. Barthold, a lawyer in San Francisco. (FYI: Here is a shorter version of Barthold’s essay. Hat tip: The Amazing Tyler Cowen.) … Continue reading →

Last week, the Amazing Tyler Cowen linked to this blog post (twice!) calling for more “dynamism and progress in the Caribbean” (see screenshot below). While I agree with these goals (who can be against “dynamism” and “progress”?), the Humean skeptic … Continue reading →

Following up on this fun prompt via my fellow co-blogger Sheree (hat tip: Bee H.), I am posting this classic from my young adult years, when I was still a student at the Yale Law School. During those years, I … Continue reading →

Chapter 3 of Tom Bingham’s book Rule of Law not only surveys the main sources of law in Britain–statutes and legislation, judge-made law and cases (the common law), as well as European and international law–it also identifies an enormous anomaly … Continue reading →