Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

A signifciant fraction of persons, i.e. greater than 10%, who voted for socialist Bernie Sanders in the Democratic Party primaries voted for Donald J. Trump in the 2016 general election? Samuel Scheffler writes in The Boston Review: “… some of … Continue reading →

Why is the Island of Cuba still a Communist military dictatorship, while in nearby Puerto Rico, the duly-elected governor Ricardo Rossello decided to resign after several weeks of massive public protests? Our friend and colleague Adrian Vermeule sums up Thomas … Continue reading →

Have you ever wondered why debates about politics, constitutional law, and philosophy can go on and on without end? More generally, why do people like to argue over such pointless matters? Even yours truly recently fell into this trap on … Continue reading →

This is one reason why I decided long ago to delete the email app from my iPhone. I don’t like being reminded of the ever-growing number of unopened emails in my cluttered inbox, especially during my summer break.

That is the title of my latest paper (sans exclamation point), which will be published in the next issue of The Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation. The subtitle is “Bargaining and Betrayal in Breaking Bad,” and you can read … Continue reading →

What do law professors and most academics do during their “summer vacations”? Ironically, the last thing most of us do is go on vacation. Instead, freed from the toils of committee meetings and teaching duties, we work–we do massive amounts … Continue reading →

Nigel Chiwaya and Jiachuan Wu kept track of all the times special counsel Bob Mueller declined to answer questions by members of Congress about his two-year investigation of President Trump. (See the screenshot of their compilation of deflections below.) The … Continue reading →

By way of example, could a tweet disparaging special counsel Bob Mueller or an op-ed criticizing the Department of Justice’s new antitrust review of Big Tech be considered an “obstruction of justice” under the open-textured federal obstruction of justice statute … Continue reading →