Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

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About F. E. Guerra-Pujol

When I’m not blogging, I am a business law professor at the University of Central Florida.

Balkin’s modest proposal: notice and take-down

This is the next-to-last post of a multi-part series. Jack Balkin concludes his social media regulation paper by taking a closer look at “intermediary liability” — i.e. the idea that social media platforms should be legally liable for unlawful content … Continue reading

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Monday map: cities in Europe named after a saint

According to this fascinating report by Frank Jacobs (via bigthink.com), the Spanish province of Galicia has the highest concentration in Europe of places named after saints.

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Sunday Syllabus: Foundations of Blockchain

Check out the first iteration of Tim Roughgarden’s elegant, no-frills “foundations of blockchain” syllabus. Bravo!

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If Jack Balkin were King of the Internet …

This is post #10 of a multi-part series. Yale Professor Jack Balkin concludes his social media regulation paper (available here) with three specific “policy levers”: Antitrust law and regulation (pp. 91-92) Fiduciary law (pp. 92-93) Legal liability rules (i.e. “intermediary … Continue reading

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Hacking and Sources of Law

I will resume my analysis of Jack Balkin’s social media regulation paper in my next post; in the meantime, check out my most recent lecture on the now-infamous Face-Mash Incident, which occurred in the fall of 2003 when college sophomore … Continue reading

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Was Adam Smith in Love?

Check out this unorthodox and informal discussion between myself and the excellent Lipton Matthews (@MatthewsLipton), who invited me to participate in his podcast series to discuss my paper, “Adam Smith in Love.” (Matthews’ entire podcast series is available here. Added … Continue reading

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My most recent “brief idea”

I just discovered that my micro-paper “Betting on Conspiracies?” was published in the Journal of Brief Ideas (JOBI) on September 12, 2021. (I had submitted my brief idea back in mid-July, but a notification email from JOBI got caught in … Continue reading

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Chalk Art

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The Facebook apology cycle

This is post #9 of a multi-part series. The penultimate part of Professor Jack Balkin’s paper “How to regulate … social media” contains my favorite quote about Facebook (Part 8, pp. 88-89, footnote omitted): “Facebook’s history as a company has … Continue reading

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Happy Hispanic Heritage Month

I just realized that I have not blogged about “Hispanic Heritage Month” in the eight years that I have been curating my “prior probability” blog. To help remedy this omission, I thought I would begin by sharing the poster art … Continue reading

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