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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.

Ipse Dixit, Episode #807

My colleague and friend Brian Frye has just posted @IpseDixitPod #807, which features Sarah Fackrell (Chicago-Kent) discussing her new law review article “The Counterfeit Sham“. Among other things, Professor Fackrell explains why design patent infringement is different from counterfeiting.

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Monday map: Internet population chart (circa 2008)

Below is the first map that I ever posted to this blog, an “Internet population map” first published on 13 October 2013 (see here). In summary, this map uses data from 2008 to illustrate the raw number of Internet users … Continue reading

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Sunday song: *Take me*

This catchy song was recorded by Winny, a Nigerian singer-songwriter, and features Thutmose, a Nigerian-American hip-hop artist based in Brooklyn.

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Regulation versus markets: outer space edition

Did you know the Federal Communications Commission has jurisdiction over the orbits of communication satellites launched from the United States? Satellites are flying radio antennas, or in the words of space lawyer Payton Alexander: “If you’re putting anything in space–be … Continue reading

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Friday funnies: 1993 New Yorker cartoon

I have been meaning to blog about this iconic cartoon by Peter Steiner after the original drawing was sold at an art auction in October 2023 to an anonymous bidder (see here), but somehow I never got around to it! In … Continue reading

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Gödel’s Loophole update

It’s official! My paper “Gödel’s Loophole: A Prequel” was just published as one of five “Selected Pieces from the 2024 ClassCrits Symposium” in the Southwestern Journal of International Law (Vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 613-631); see here.

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Reciprocal harms, part 3

Traditionally, the law addressed [the problem of harmful effects] by asking such questions as … who caused the harm [and] who acted reasonably. Coase, however, emphasized the reciprocal nature of the problem ….” [Stewart Schwab, “Coase Defends Coase: Why Lawyers Listen and … Continue reading

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Reciprocal harms, part 2

I mentioned in my previous post that harms might be a “reciprocal” problem, a simple but counter-intuitive idea with revolutionary implications that can be traced back to the work of the late great Anglo-American economist Ronald Coase, and I also … Continue reading

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A Coasian critique of Kurt Gray’s harm thesis: part 1 of 3

Yesterday, I read Elizabeth Kolbert’s review (see here) of Kurt Gray’s new book Outraged: Why We Fight about Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground on pp. 63-65 of the January 20th issue of The New Yorker. Among … Continue reading

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Sunday song: *Bom Dia Rio*

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