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Falsification, the Coase theorem, and the Apple iPhone case
Broadly speaking, the Coase theorem is a famous proposition from law and economics that postulates that conflicting parties will resolve their dispute by striking a mutually beneficial bargain when property rights are well-defined and when the costs of transacting are … Continue reading
Property rights and the Apple iPhone case
What do you think of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s decision to fight a court order requiring Apple to decrypt an iPhone belonging to Syed Farook, the terrorist who massacred 14 innocent people late last year? Professor Orin Kerr has written … Continue reading
Jurisdiction & Ethics (Lessons 8-9)
“This wasn’t right, damn it. This wasn’t fair.” –Quoted from Ben Mezrich, The Accidental Billionaires. In our next lecture (2/22), we are going to re-enact another pivotal scene from the movie “The Social Network”–a scene based on chapter 16 of … Continue reading
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Reblog: “Punctuation in novels”
Corrected (2/18): In case you’re wondering, via Adam J. Calhoun this is what two different English-language novels look like if you were to take out all the words and sentences and just leave the punctuation marks behind: Punctuation in Blood Meridian by … Continue reading
Antonin Scalia
We had the honor of meeting the gregarious Antonin Scalia on several occasions during his visit a few years ago to the Pontifical Catholic University in Ponce, Puerto Rico, where we used to teach. At a faculty luncheon in his honor, … Continue reading
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