Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

About F. E. Guerra-Pujol

When I’m not blogging, I am a business law professor at the University of Central Florida.

Boricua Beer

Posted on December 8, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

We are grading our fall term final projects for Law & Ethics. In brief, we asked our students to choose a company they would want to be the CEO of and to explore various legal and ethical issues facing their company, … Continue reading →

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“Don’t keep a schedule”

Posted on December 7, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Marc Andresseen shares his quirky ideas for becoming a hyper-productive machine here. (We stumbled upon these guidelines via Tyler Cowen, the most hyper-productive blogger, reader, scholar bar none.) Some of Andresseen’s ideas make sense and are easy to implement–like “do … Continue reading →

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Questions regarding the 13th Amendment

Posted on December 6, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Happy Anniversary! On this day 150 years ago, the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of U.S. States, including most (but not all) of the southern States that had left the Union and joined the rebel and pro-slavery … Continue reading →

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Houseplane?

Posted on December 5, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Check out this video (via digg), featuring Bruce Campbell, who lives in a Boeing 727.

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Credible Commitment?

Posted on December 4, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

What a great time to be alive, especially if you are consultant, what with so many philanthropic foundations to choose from … Our friend Mark Zuckerberg recently pledged–via a lengthy public letter ostensibly addressed to his newborn daughter–to donate 99% … Continue reading →

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Camera-book

Posted on December 4, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

h/t kottke

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Dept. of Good Riddance?

Posted on December 3, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

What’s up? The world’s most overpaid and overrated athlete recently wrote a lame poem to announce his retirement from the game of basketball. (No, we aren’t talking about Amar’e Stoudemire.) In any case, this odd ode makes no reference to … Continue reading →

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Best Final Project (Fall 2015)

Posted on December 2, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Congratulations to our amazing student Andrea Londono. Her excellent video (see link above) explaining the law and ethics of BeatBox Beverages, a startup company located in Austin, Texas, received the most votes for “best presentation” from the students in our … Continue reading →

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Risk assessment

Posted on December 1, 2015 by F. E. Guerra-Pujol

If you’re afraid of terrorism, mass shootings, or sharks, then don’t get behind the wheel. Via Wikipedia: “On average in 2012, 92 people were killed on the roadways of the U.S. each day, in 30,800 fatal crashes during the year.” … Continue reading →