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.

Free East Turkestan

The Chinese government is committing cultural genocide against the Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang province (East Turkestan), detaining approximately one million people over the past five years, subjecting them to abuse and “re-education” and forcing them to denounce their religion. See … Continue reading

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Friday funnies: how to tie a tie

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Throwback Thursday: Puerto Rico Truel

In a previous Throwback Thursday I featured my 2005 paper “Deconstructing Darwin.” Today, I want to feature my 2008 paper on “A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Impasse over Puerto Rico’s Status,” which is available here via the magic of SSRN. … Continue reading

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When the police and the courts are the criminals

Here are the opening two paragraphs of my paper on “The Law of Self-Ownership” (footnotes omitted): “When undercover police officers arrested Ana Isabel Castro-Garcia (pictured below, left) and Brenda Stephanie Mata (middle) in Laredo, Texas for working from their homes … Continue reading

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Who is the biggest crook in the United States?

I nominate all the State and local government officials who took people’s labor rights during the pandemic without the payment of just compensation. In a nutshell, my thesis is that labor is property and that lockdown orders thus constitute a … Continue reading

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The Law of Self-Ownership

That is the title of my most recent work-in-progress, available here via SSRN. Among other things, my paper surveys the greatest and largest-scale “taking” in the history of the United States: the taking of labor of non-essential workers during the … Continue reading

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Diego Maradona y la mano de Dios

On this day (June 22) in 1986, Diego Maradona scored his controversial “Hand of God goal” in the quarter-finals of the World Cup match between Argentina and England. Payback for las Islas Malvinas (Falkland Islands), which rightly belong to Argentina!

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Two cheers for Justice Kavanaugh

From his concurring opinion in today’s historic Supreme Court decision (NCAA v. Alston) smacking down the NCAA: “The bottom line is that the NCAA and its member colleges are suppressing the pay of student athletes who collectively generate billions of … Continue reading

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Movie Monday: Roadrunner

This new movie about the life of Anthony Bourdain (see trailer below) is scheduled to be released on July 16; more details here, via Kottke.

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Selena Sunday

Selena forever! I am feeling much better today so I thought I would share a fragment of my favorite Selena song:

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