Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

My second-most cited law review article, “Coase and the Constitution” (Guerra-Pujol, 2011), one of six scholarly papers I have written inspired by the ideas of the late Ronald Coase, presents a Coasean or property-rights method for resolving disputes over federalism. … Continue reading →

I began this series of blog posts one week ago (Jan. 20) by listing 11 serious researchers who have cited or otherwise mentioned my 2013 law review article “Gödel’s Loophole” — to keep my list manageable, I included only scholarly … Continue reading →

I picked up a copy of Stephen Budiansky‘s new biography of Kurt Gödel — Journey to the Edge of Reason, W. W. Norton (2021) — by chance at a book store in Winter Park, Florida in June of 2021, and … Continue reading →

Ben Abramowitz, Ehud Shapiro, and Nimrod Talmon cite “Gödel’s Loophole” in their excellent 2020 research article “How to Amend a Constitution? Model, Axioms, and Supermajority Rules” (via arXiv). Their formal paper is mathematical in nature, but here are the first … Continue reading →

Anuj Das Gupta, the Chief Research Officer of Stratumn SAS in Paris, France, cites “Gödel’s Loophole” in his excellent essay “Looking for the Soul in Satoshi’s Work” (Das Gupta, 2019), which provides a general overview of blockchain technology. Toward the … Continue reading →

Two foreign-language works cite my 2013 paper “Gödel’s Loophole”: one in Italian (Bianchi, 2020, available here); the other in Polish (Kubas, 2017, here). Let’s begin with Sergio Bianchi, a professor of financial mathematics at the University of Rome (“La Sapienza”), … Continue reading →

In my previous post, I listed the works of several authors who have cited my 2013 law review article “Gödel’s Loophole“, and I also said that I would read their works and reply to them soon, so let’s begin with … Continue reading →

My 2013 paper “Gödel’s Loophole” reconstructs the story of Kurt Gödel’s purported discovery of a logical contradiction in the U.S. Constitution — there are multiple versions of this story; Part 2 of the paper revisits them all. Part 3 of … Continue reading →

Britney Spears is now free, but what about the rest of us? Via Reason (11/19/21), J. D. Tuccille makes the case for killing the TSA, another one of George W. Bush’s monumental and moronic failures, along with his illegal war … Continue reading →

Check out this recent op-ed in the N.Y. Times by Jason M. Barr (@JasonBarrRU), a professor of economics at Rutgers University. IMO, Professor Barr’s proposed plan to expand Manhattan is long overdue! File under: “Why didn’t I think of that?”