Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Apple pays only 1% to 7% tax on overseas income, via “the Paradise Papers” and Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany’s biggest newspaper). File Under: Another example of bogus “corporate social responsibility.” Alternative file under: Another example of why Milton Friedman was right: firms … Continue reading →

Read the full disturbing story (“Something Is Wrong on the Internet”) by James Bridle here (hat tip: digg.com). From a tort law perspective, could YouTube (Google/Alphabet) be legally liable for the troubling videos that are proliferating on the YouTube Kids … Continue reading →

Is iPhone X the new Blackberry? According to Square Trade, the iPhone X is not only the most breakable smartphone ever made; it’s also the most expensive to repair. So, can anyone explain to us why Apple addicts (like this one) still … Continue reading →

Perhaps there is no way to prevent evil men from killing innocent people, but there is a way of making those who profit from these killings pay monetary damages to the victims. It’s called tort law. Unfortunately, however, the Protection … Continue reading →

In our previous post, we shouted out Donald Kochan’s paper on the history of the Takings Clause, available here via SSRN. His work poses an intriguing and important question: From a consumer or marketing perspective, how should we label the … Continue reading →

Updated 11/5 (9AM): We’re attending the eighth annual constitutional law colloquium at Loyola Law School in Chicago, where we are presenting our work-in-progress on “Bayesian voting.” So far, our favorite paper presented at the colloquium is Donald Kochan’s work on the “framing” … Continue reading →

Picbreeder, created by University of Central Florida computer scientist Kenneth Stanley, is a computer algorithm that can create art. (More information here, via FiveThirtyEight. Hat tip: Cliff Pickover, via Twitter.)

In this post, we will explain what “Bayesian voting” and “probabilistic verdicts” are. Simply put, under Bayesian voting a judge would assign a numerical score reflecting his relative degree of belief in what the proper outcome of an issue or … Continue reading →

According to Reddit user Wolfinton, Sweden was the very first country to introduce a ban on corporal punishment of children (1979). In recent years, many other countries have followed suit. (As of today, 52 countries have banned corporal punishment of … Continue reading →