Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

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…

Via The Moscow Times, here is a minute-by-minute timeline of the pro-democracy events unfolding in Russia. (In addition, we hope the dictators in China, Cuba, Hong Kong, Iran, North Korea, Turkey, and Venezuela are also held to account soon for … Continue reading →

For my fellow political philosophers and fans of Thomas Hobbes, the meme pictured below has my vote! (As an added bonus, here is a comprehensive thread containing many more good Bernie memes, which should last us until the rest of … Continue reading →

With apologies to Tennyson, check out this 2011 essay by Howard Bryant (ESPN) describing one the most remarkable chapters in the history of sports. In addition to breaking records in baseball, the great Henry Louis Aaron helped to change Atlanta … Continue reading →