Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Note: This is the third in a series of blog posts in honor of Richard Posner My independent study of the works of Richard A. Posner began in December of 2000, when I visited a used bookstore called Brand Bookshop … Continue reading →

IP history: On this day (21 Feb.) in 1842, the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine is granted. (Charles Fredrick Wiesenthal, a German-born engineer working in England, was awarded the first British patent in 1755 for a mechanical device … Continue reading →

Happy Presidents Day Weekend! Thus far, I have reviewed the first five chapters of Thomas Bingham’s Rule of Law, and along the way I have identified some serious flaws in Judge Bingham’s book, such as the circularity of the equality … Continue reading →

Originally posted on prior probability:
As I see it, a good Bayesian should assign an equal probability to each of these outcomes and then begin updating these priors as new evidence becomes available, right?

More pictures of our puppy “Nugget”:

Next week, I will review Chapters 6 and 7 of Rule of Law by Tom Bingham as well as write another blog post or two about the one of the greatest legal scholars and judges of all time, Richard A. … Continue reading →

By F. E. Guerra-Pujol, University of Central Florida Note: This essay is my contribution (sans the Christina Aguilera video) to the next issue of Faculty Focus Have you heard about the new powerful chatbots cheating genies that Microsoft and Google … Continue reading →

As I see it, a good Bayesian should assign an equal probability to each of these outcomes and then begin updating these priors as new evidence becomes available, right?

Thus far, I have reviewed the first four chapters of Thomas Bingham’s book Rule of Law, pointing out some holes and flaws in Bingham’s work, such as the problem of vague or conflicting laws (see here) and the problem of … Continue reading →