Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Below is my one-page syllabus for a graduate-level course on “advanced business law topics” that I will be teaching this semester. During the first half of the semester, I am assigning two movies, “The Social Network” and “Blade Runner“; two … Continue reading →

The Department of Justice’s memorandum explaining the reasons for the redactions of the Trump search warrant affidavit is itself substantially redacted. File under: Transparency and accountability for thee but not me!

Today (25 August), my wife and I will commemorate the liberation of Paris from the Germans (today is “Paris Liberation Day“!), and I will celebrate another birthday, and we will mark both occasions with a bottle of our favorite champagne, … Continue reading →

The Journal of Law and Public Policy of St Thomas University in Minneapolis has just published its special symposium issue on “Alternate Realities: Conspiracy Theory and the Constitutional and Democratic Order” (see here), including my paper on “The Leibniz Conspiracy.” … Continue reading →

Today (23 August) is Election Day in Florida. Although it is just a “primary”, below is a small sample of some of the “political junk mail” my wife, a registered Democrat, received this month. (Life hack: I am a registered … Continue reading →

Previously, we identified the “seven basic plots” (see here) and presented the quest narrative in Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis’s famous article on “The Right to Privacy” (see here). But another classic law review article (the first page of which … Continue reading →

Originally posted on prior probability:
Mine is “Ten Duel Commandments” hands down! In addition to the musical beat and the lyrics, I like how Lin-Manuel Miranda breaks down the intricate formal rules of this deadly and fascinating ritual. Here is…

We identified “the seven basic plots” in my previous post, but of these seven plot devices, what type of narrative or story do lawyers, law professors, and judges like to tell? To begin exploring this question, let me introduce you … Continue reading →

I mentioned Christopher Booker’s reductionist but intriguing taxonomy of “Seven Basic Plots” in my previous post. In summary, according to Booker, the seven types of story-sequences or plot devices are as follows: “Overcoming the monster” (see chapters 1 & 2 … Continue reading →

That is the title of this 2004 book by Christopher Booker (1937–2019), a British journalist who wrote a weekly column for The Sunday Telegraph. (FYI: Here is his Wikipedia page.) I am generally highly skeptical of all such reductionist taxonomies, … Continue reading →