Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

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 →

Thus far, I have reviewed the first six chapters of Rule of Law by Tom Bingham and have identified a host of problems–logical fallacies, omissions, and blind spots–with Judge Bingham’s work. The next chapter, Chapter 7, which is devoted to … Continue reading →

Greg Byrne is the Athletics Director at the University of Alabama, while Nate Oats is the head coach of the University of Alabama’s basketball team. Two of the “student-athletes” on their squad were involved in the murder of Jamea Jonae … Continue reading →

My home institution the University of Central Florida (UCF) has announced that John C. Hitt, our president from 1992 to 2018, has died at the age of 82. It was under President Hitt’s forward-looking leadership that UCF went from a … Continue reading →

Today (22 February 2023) is George Washington’s 292nd birthday! Two reasons I like to mark this occasion is Washington’s decision to resign his military commission after the rebels won the American Revolution as well as his fateful decision not to … Continue reading →