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.

PSA: Coach Prime is overrated

See here. Could someone please inform the sorry-ass editors at Sports Illustrated (or their AI bots) that Coach Prime’s last-place team was only able to muster a single solitary victory against their conference opponents this season? Either we are being … Continue reading

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This day in ChatGPT history

For better or worse (it’s still too early to tell), OpenAI launched ChatGPT to the public on this day (30 November) in 2022.

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*Outer Space Auctions?*

I just posted to SSRN a revised and corrected version of my paper “Outer Space Auctions?“, which will be published in the next issue of The Annals of Air and Space Law. Among other things, my new work explains why … Continue reading

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Revisiting my published pandemic papers: *Teaching Tiger King* and *The Leibniz Conspiracy*

I revisited two of my (still unpublished!) pandemic-inspired papers, “Lockdowns as Takings” and “The Chegg Conspiracy“, in my previous posts. Another pair of pandemic-era works of mine, however, did get published: one in The St Louis University Law Journal (“Teaching … Continue reading

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Revisiting my other unpublished pandemic-era paper: *The Chegg Conspiracy*

I already revisited the first of my pandemic-era papers, “Lockdowns as Takings“, in my previous post. In all, the Wuhan virus inspired four of my scholarly papers, including my proposed criminal indictment “The Chegg Conspiracy“, which I wrote up during … Continue reading

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Revisiting my April 2020 paper *Lockdowns as Takings*

Remember the ill-advised “stay-at-home” orders during the pandemic? In all, 43 State governors issued emergency (i.e. illegal) orders directing residents to stay at home and non-essential businesses to close in response to the coronavirus pandemic (see here, for example). But … Continue reading

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The ethics of liberalism

My previous three posts have been highly critical of Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein’s holier-than-thou new essay “Why I am a liberal”. Here, however, I want to focus on one point where both Sunstein and I agree: the fact that … Continue reading

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The hypocrisy of Cass Sunstein? (part 3)

As I explained in my previous post, Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein’s critique of “tribalism” in his new essay “Why I am a liberal” shows us why public intellectuals like Sunstein are faux liberals, not true ones like Adam Smith … Continue reading

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Why Cass Sunstein is a faux liberal (part 2)

I introduced Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein’s new essay “Why I am a liberal” in my previous post (see here), where I subjected the first of Sunstein’s 34 claims to critical scrutiny. To recap, I not only showed how the … Continue reading

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What is liberalism, and does it matter?

A few days ago, polymath Tyler Cowen brought to my attention “an excellent and benchmark piece” (Cowen’s words, not mine) titled “Why I am a liberal” by Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein. I hate to be “that guy” but Professor … Continue reading

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