Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

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We are not big fans of Alice Goffman’s best-selling book On the run, since we think most of the stories in her book are pure fiction at best. (We have even gone as far as to suggest that “Goffman is … Continue reading →

Via kottke, check out the complete series of these sublime pictures of the same tree shot by Patrik Svedberg. Like a modern day Monet, Mr Svedberg has been photographing a single Swedish tree for the last two years and posting the … Continue reading →

British researchers Patrick Sharman and Alatair J. Wilson argue that racehorses are indeed getting faster. (Their research on racehorse speeds is available in this scientific paper, the source of the table appearing below. By the way, our mentor Jorge Cordova … Continue reading →

  My colleague and friend Jorge Cordova recently went to a better place. Jorge and I both taught law at the Pontifical Catholic University School of Law in Ponce, P.R. for many years. (Before UCF, I started my teaching career … Continue reading →

Michelle N. Meyer and Christopher Chabris, professors at Union Graduate College in Schenectady, New York, recently published a thought-provoking essay in the Sunday Times on the ethics of nonconsensual “A/B testing” like the Facebook mood contagion experiment, the inconclusive results of which were … Continue reading →

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That is the latest paper of our friend and colleague, the excellent Marc Edelman (pictured below), who has written up a detailed primer on federal and State anti-gambling laws and their potential application to the world of “daily fantasy sports.” … Continue reading →

That is the title of our long-awaited and latest legal research paper, which is now available on SSRN. Why did we write a paper on such a seemingly narrow subject? Well, a few years ago, Chief Justice John Roberts made … Continue reading →

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