Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

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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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

I am interrupting my review of Week 2 of Tiger Law to share one of the most timely and creative chess sets I have ever seen. Crazy, right! Hat tip: the Amazing and Incomparable Tyler Cowen, via Marginal Revolution.

Module 2 of my legal/ethical environment survey course is devoted to the main sources of law in the U.S. legal system–State, federal, and international law–and is divided into six parts as follows: A. Introduction to the main sources of law … Continue reading →