Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol
The caucus method of voting
What is a caucus, you ask? It is a highly interactive and time-consuming method of voting. According to this excellent step-by-step explanation by Dominico Montanaro (via NPR), here is what is supposed to happen in each of Iowa’s 1765 electoral … Continue reading
Dreaming of Florida
If you are in the Orlando area, skip Disney and visit the Orlando Museum of Art instead. OMA is featuring a special exhibit on The Florida Highwaymen, a remarkable group of Afro-American painters from Ft Pierce, Florida who revolutionized the … Continue reading
6 rings
If you don’t speak Spanish, you are missing out! (Kobe had five championship rings; the sixth ring in this moving musical tribute refers to Kobe’s wedding ring.) Update: here is a decent English translation of Bad Bunny’s lyrics.
Faith and reason
Today (1/28) is the feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas, who made many contributions to natural law theory. In addition, Aquinas attempted to synthesize the ideas of Aristotle with the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church. The YouTube video below … Continue reading
Solum on the law and ethics of consent
“Consent” is an indispensable legal and moral concept, but why? Check out Larry Solum’s excellent legal theory blog post on the legal and moral significance of consent. (Professor Solum’s post popped up recently on my Twitter feed. For periodic legal … Continue reading
Two cheers for The Journal of Law
My copy of Volume 9 of The Journal of Law just arrived in the mail! Among other things, this eclectic volume contains my paper on “The Case for Bayesian Judges,” which is also available here, via SSRN.

