Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Which side is bluffing in the current Game of Chicken* between Greece and the EU? (*Or is it a “War of Attrition”?) Maybe we should be asking a different question: Who has more to lose if Greece were to leave the … Continue reading →

How are lawyers, law firms, and law professors all connected in a given legal jurisdiction? Using the advanced mapping and mathematical methods of network theory, our close friend and colleague Orlando I. Martinez-Garcia, a respected attorney and adjunct in the … Continue reading →

The facts: (a) A right-wing politician makes an indecent proposal in the National Review regarding the Supreme Court. (b) An intellectual judge, responding to this silly proposal, then calls out the politician on his personal blog–a wonderful blog, by the way, called … Continue reading →

 How did we all get stuck using the Gregorian calendar? Aside from the QWERTY problem, can you think of any other examples of a network effect keeping us in a suboptimal equilibrium? How about LinkedIn, licensure requirements, or three years of law school? (If … Continue reading →

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Time to update your priors, again … Judge Alex Kozinski has written up a scathing indictment of our criminal justice system in his latest essay Criminal Law 2.0. Judge Kozinski’s thesis is that the criminal justice game is rigged in … Continue reading →

The Venus de Milo–the second-most famous work of art housed in the cluttered halls of the Louvre Museum in Paris–is a centuries-old mystery. Has this mystery finally been solved? Check out the full, fascinating article by Virginia Postrel here.

For us, July is a month full of memorable milestones and quirky anniversaries. One year ago this month, for example, Rowman & Littlefield published The Economics of the Undead. (Our contribution to this book–a little essay titled “Buy or Bite?” appears in … Continue reading →

Does Sherlock Holmes charge a fee for his detective services? Hat tip: bhip (via imgur).