Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

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About F. E. Guerra-Pujol

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

Not all x’s are alike …

Used this diagram in class today to discuss the range of business law advice pic.twitter.com/mA06RI3Uda — David Orozco (@ProfessorOrozco) September 2, 2015 We like this chart by our friend and colleague David Orozco. In this case, x = lawyers. But … Continue reading

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Salesman in Chief

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More thoughts on the creation of a “Facebook legal privilege”

Broadly speaking, the law protects certain communications from forced disclosure in judicial proceedings. For example, the law recognizes an evidentiary “attorney-client privilege,” which is a legal privilege that protects confidential communications made to an attorney by his client. (In addition, … Continue reading

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“Let the hacking begin …” (Lesson 1, Part 2)

In a previous post, we asked whether Mark Zuckerberg breached any legal duties or violated any laws when he created Facemash? One theory of legal liability might be the tort of invasion of privacy, since Zuckerberg downloaded and then re-posted pictures of Harvard … Continue reading

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Our Summer Reading List (Part 3)

We are returning to this important book on “Error and the Growth of Experimental Knowledge” by our friend Deborah Mayo. We had started reading her fascinating book last spring and hope to finish it sometime this fall. We consider it a … Continue reading

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“Cheat Shoe”

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Should the law recognize a “Facebook privilege” as it does the “attorney-client privilege”?

As Denise Callahan explains in this report, What you say on Facebook and on other social network sites can be used against you in a court of law: “Whether it’s a divorce proceeding or criminal trial, posts on social networking … Continue reading

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Lesson 1: Facemash

This semester, we are using the founding of Facebook, as depicted in the book “The Accidental Billionaires” and the film “The Social Network,” as an in-depth case study to learn about business law and ethics. Lesson 1 of the course … Continue reading

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Law & Strategy (an open letter to our business law colleagues)

Dear colleagues, We are now in the process of writing up a short paper on the subject of “Law & Strategy,” but in the meantime, we would like to share some of our tentative thoughts about this subject. First, we … Continue reading

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Knowledge is socially constructed … So what?

Recently, we interrupted our summer vacation to attend a talk by the “critical” scholar Yves Gendron, who presented his 2013 paper “Rethinking the concept of the research contribution.” His paper is very thoughtful and well written, but his conclusions are … Continue reading

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