Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

The beautiful game or the cheating game? Vox staff writer Umar Irfan offers this excellent analysis of why soccer players take dives–and why most of these fake falls and feigned injuries occur in the penalty area. In two words: cheating … Continue reading →

“If it makes you feel any better… if the line widths were to scale then it would be entirely white at this resolution.” (u/BFC_Psym)

SCOTUS overruled another venerable precedent this week. (Will Roe v. Wade be the next to go?) The case is South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc., a decision we hope is quickly overruled by Congress. Due to other commitments (Summer A grading), … Continue reading →

Now that the Summer of 2018 is upon us, here’s what we are reading (and watching) this week: 1. “Finding law” by Stephen A. Sachs. This 60-page essay addresses a fascinating theoretical question in legal theory: Do judges make law … Continue reading →

The renowned TV personality Fred McFeely Rogers (yes, minor spoiler alert, “McFeely” was his real middle name!) was the host of the enduring PBS series Mr Rogers’ Neighborhood from 1968 to 2001. (Mr Rogers died on 27 February 2003. Below … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →