Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol
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
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.
Sunday Syllabus: Foundations of Blockchain
Check out the first iteration of Tim Roughgarden’s elegant, no-frills “foundations of blockchain” syllabus. Bravo!
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
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
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
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
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
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

