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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.

A year of ideas

To start off the new year on the right track, I have assembled below, for your reading pleasure and intellectual stimulation, my favorite “best of” end-of-year reflections and collection of ideas from 2019. Enjoy! 1. Larry Solum: Downloads of the … Continue reading

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Ludwig von Mises vs. Karl Marx

This epic “rap battle of ideas” begins at 1’29”; enjoy!

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Kingston sunset

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End of year review: 2019

In addition to my teaching duties and my duties as editor of The Pegasus Review (my home institution’s undergraduate research journal), I published the following scholarly papers on various areas of the law, including copyrights (paper #1 below), judicial decision-making … Continue reading

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White to mate in two moves

This prizewinning chess problem by Paul Bekkelund first appeared in the Norwegian chess magazine Sjakk-Nytt circa 1947 (hat tip: Cliff Pickover).

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AI for all?

Yes! “The Elements of AI” is a series of free online courses (all of which are available here) created by the University of Helsinki and Reaktor. According to the official website for the Elements of AI, these courses combine theory … Continue reading

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Making philosophy fun again

[Review of “Jerks, zombie robots, and other philosophical misadventures” (MIT Press, 2019) by Eric Schwitzgebel.] Professor Schwitzgebel’s beautiful new book (pictured below and available here via the MIT Press) consists of 58 short philosophical reflections. Like a modern-day Montaigne, Schwitzgebel … Continue reading

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The Case for Bayesian Judges

That is the title of my latest paper, which was published in Volume 9 of the Journal of Law, available here (via the Journal of Legal Metrics) or here (via SSRN). In summary, my paper contributes to the literature on … Continue reading

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Christmas break reading

Alas, my Christmas break ends early this year (I resume my teaching duties on Monday, Jan. 6). In the meantime, here is a subset of what I have been (or will be) reading over the holiday season (in addition to … Continue reading

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