Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol
Which one of these shabby characters puts children in cages?
Relative plausibility or bayesian verdicts?
Note: This post (sorry for the delay), my tenth and final one on Ron Allen and Mike Pardo’s “relative plausibility” paper (available here, via SSRN), is based on my 2015 paper “Why don’t juries try range voting?,” which was published … Continue reading
We are all law breakers now (#ThreeFeloniesADay)
Let’s put aside the fact that the American Southwest was stolen from Mexico in an illegal war of aggression. To a Bayesian natural law theorist (admittedly, we are a small number), the relevant question is not whether poor Spanish-speaking Central … Continue reading
A puzzle
Update (6/21): One possible answer to this puzzle might be here. Apparently, the producers of the film are posting fake positive reviews.
Natural law theory 101
Via our favorite legal blog (the Volokh Conspiracy), our friend and colleague Ilya Somin, a law professor at George Mason University (and a prolific blogger), explains why “enforcing the law doesn’t justify separating migrant children from their parents” in this … Continue reading
Free MIT math courses
Below is just a small sample of free graduate-level and undergraduate-level math courses available for free via MIT Open Courseware. Check out the complete list of MIT math courses here!
Dancing queens
Shout out to the Russian Ballet of Orlando for their whimsical production of the French fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast.” I attended many of the rehearsals (my daughter had a small role in the production) and noticed that ballet … Continue reading
Two approaches to data fraud, fake news, etc.
1. Common law. On the one hand, we could apply traditional common law doctrines like fraudulent misrepresentation and breach of contract. The common law approach generally consists of “simple rules,” to borrow Richard Epstein’s term, but for better or worse, … Continue reading

