Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Now that Richard Posner has announced his retirement from the bench, who will replace this legal legend on the Seventh Circuit? We propose IBM’s Watson computer! If Watson can be programmed to win game shows and diagnose patients, why couldn’t … Continue reading →

That is the title of my work in progress, which I will be presenting at a colloquium to be held this weekend at the Savannah Law School on 516 Drayton Street (here is a link to the program), where lawyers, … Continue reading →

No post mortem of any natural disaster would be complete without a discussion of the law, ethics, and economics of “price gouging.” We understand the economics of price gouging (alas, it is the most efficient and fair method of allocating … Continue reading →

Does a declared state of emergency trump the principle of liberty of contract embodied in the employment-at-will doctrine? According to this report in The Atlantic by Gillian B. White, the short answer is no. Here is an excerpt (edited by us … Continue reading →

Is Apple’s new “iPhone X” really worth $1000? Pro and con.

We won’t be blogging during the next few days. (Thanks, Irma.) During the storm, we will be reading “The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship that Shaped Modern Thought” (available here, via Amazon) by Dennis … Continue reading →

On the eve of Hurricane Irma, my wife and I finally got around to seeing Christopher Nolan’s mesmerizing 2017 film Dunkirk at Regal Cinema in Winter Park. This movie is a masterpiece. Among other things, it brought to our mind Ernest Hemingway’s classic … Continue reading →

Check out this report by Scott McCartney describing the new Bombadier C Series airplane manufactured in Montreal, Canada. The Bombadier has wider seats and larger overhead bins and makes less noise than most other commercial passenger jets.

Is there a correlation between “Big Data” and the level of fraud? Following up on our previous post on Facebook’s false ad metrics, below are some links on the growing problem of data fraud: “Fabrication in survey data” (Mike Spagot) … Continue reading →