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.

In memoriam

Kindly join me in taking a moment to honor the brave men and women of our armed forces, especially those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms.

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Mooney’s mistake (Coase & COVID-19)

In a previous post, I mentioned that I would elaborate on my Coasean approach to the current pandemic. So, here it goes. To begin with, when my fellow legal scholars hear the words “Coase” or “Coasean”, most of them immediately … Continue reading

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Questions rarely asked (chex mix edition)

https://twitter.com/naahrun/status/1263247361633124354

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Property rights panel: four questions

Following up on my previous post, the moderator of our panel, the excellent Robert H. Thomas, formulated four thought-provoking questions for the members of our May 15 property rights panel. Here are his questions (edited by yours truly for clarity): … Continue reading

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Property rights panel: a recap

Revised and corrected (11:00 AM): Last Friday (May 15, 2020), Professor Ilya Somin and I debated whether coronavirus lockdown orders are “takings” under the Constitution. We are still waiting on the Federalist Society to post an audio recording of our … Continue reading

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Law’s little spiders: building the seamless web

Note: This is the last of five blog posts covering Module 2 of my summer “Tiger Law” course. Thus far, we have described law as a “seamless web” and have explored three major areas of this massive tangled cobweb: State … Continue reading

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College Park

Happy Cuban Independence Day! I am still dreaming of a Cuba Libre; in the meantime, I am interrupting (once again) my extended review of Week 2 of my “tiger law” course in order to share some delightful pictures I took … Continue reading

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Treaties, customs, and human rights: the outer edges of law’s seamless web

Note: This is the fourth of five blog posts covering Module 2 of my business law summer course (Tiger King edition). Part D of Module 2 is devoted to the third major source of law: the Law of Nations or … Continue reading

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Federal law: the expanding web

Note: This is the third of five blog posts devoted to Module 2 of my business law summer course (Tiger King edition). Previously, we introduced F. W. Maitland’s beautiful metaphor of law as a seamless web, and we briefly examined … Continue reading

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The law is a seamless web

Note: This is the second of several blog posts devoted to Module 2 of my business law summer course (Tiger King edition). Let’s jump into Module 2, shall we? In summary, this module is devoted to the main “Sources of … Continue reading

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