Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Today is not only the “1st of tha month“; today also marks the start of a “perfectly rectangular” February. More details about this occurrence are available here, via Vox (Yuri Victor).

Also, check out this essay by Fahad Muhammad on the psychology of colors. Meanwhile, chemists at Oregon State University have created a new shade of blue! Hat tips: Brian Leiter and @pickover.

Note: this is probably my last blog post on Orin Kerr’s essay “Line-Drawing and Legal Education.” Thus far we have been exploring the technique of line-drawing from the perspective of lawyers, moral philosophers, and scholars generally: (a) the ubiquity of … Continue reading →

Note: this is the fifth of six blog posts on Orin Kerr’s essay “Line-Drawing and Legal Education.” Thus far in this series of blog posts, we have explored the reasons why we must draw lines whenever we must formulate a … Continue reading →

Note: this is the fourth in a series of six blog posts … Now that we have identified the reasons why we must draw lines–why it is most questions in law and ethics boil down to difficult line-drawing exercises–let us … Continue reading →

Note: this is the third in a series of blog posts … Thus far, I have identified one reason why we must draw lines whenever we must formulate a new legal rule or apply an existing rule to a new … Continue reading →

Except for the use of this ugly acronym (WDYDTL = Where do you draw the line?), Professor Orin Kerr’s new 11-page essay on “Line-Drawing and Legal Education” is a beautiful paper, a jurisprudential tour de force containing many valuable and … Continue reading →

That is the title of this intriguing short paper by my colleague and friend Orin S. Kerr, a law professor at UC Berkeley. I ask this question (i.e. where should we draw the line between legal and illegal, moral and … Continue reading →

By a vote of 84 to 15, the Senate has confirmed Janet Yellen’s nomination to be our next Secretary of the Treasury (see here), a position once held by the great Alexander Hamilton. Although I am not a huge fan … Continue reading →

Originally posted on prior probability:
Let’s start with George Bush Jr. (“Bushito”) for starting costly wars without end in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today (21 Jan. 2021), for example, 18 years after Bushito’s fateful decision to start a disastrous pre-emptive war…