Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Alternative Title: Defund the Cuban Police One more “data point.” Another cruel indignity. This time at the hands of the Cuban State Police. I just found out that an officer working for Cuba’s National Revolutionary Police shot and killed an … Continue reading →

The two-hour launch window opens on Thursday, July 30 at 7:50am (Eastern).

On the recommendation of my colleague, friend, and fellow Indophile Alex Tabarrok, I finally got around to reading Megha Majumdar’s debut novel “A Burning,” which revolves around a false criminal prosecution for terrorism and sedition. Here is the blog post … Continue reading →

Originally posted on prior probability:
Before I begin blogging about legal positivism, I want to go on the record and send the following succinct message to the Florida Board of Bar Examiners: it’s time to pull your heads out of…

While I am “on vacation” working on sundry scholarly projects and enjoying some R&R with my family, I created this film noir collage of some of the classic noir movies my family and I have seen during the month of … Continue reading →

What role does probability theory play in legal trials? What role should it play? In addition to my “Bayesian voting primer“–yes, the same one that an anonymous group of moderators found “unrefereeable“–, I have also been writing up an extended … Continue reading →

That is how an anonymous group of self-described arXiv “moderators” described my most recent work in progress “Weyl Versus Ramsey: A Primer on Bayesian Voting,” which I have been diligently working on during my summer break and which I tried … Continue reading →

Today the Island of Puerto Rico celebrates “El Día de la Constitución.” On this day in 1898, the U.S. Army invaded Puerto Rico to expel the Spanish, and on this same day in 1952, the first democratically-elected Governor of Puerto … Continue reading →

I want to shout out the Spanish remix version of Camila Cabello’s beautiful song “Havana,” a song about a lost love, especially Daddy Yankee’s masterful contribution to the song, which begins at 1’24” … Among other things, Daddy Yankee sings: … Continue reading →