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Open borders
Via Valerio Vincenzo, check out these amazing and beautiful pictures of open borders in the Schengen area, a geographical zone consisting of a total of 26 European countries that have abolished their passport and border controls at their common borders. … Continue reading
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Falsification, the Coase theorem, and the Apple iPhone case
Broadly speaking, the Coase theorem is a famous proposition from law and economics that postulates that conflicting parties will resolve their dispute by striking a mutually beneficial bargain when property rights are well-defined and when the costs of transacting are … Continue reading
Property rights and the Apple iPhone case
What do you think of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s decision to fight a court order requiring Apple to decrypt an iPhone belonging to Syed Farook, the terrorist who massacred 14 innocent people late last year? Professor Orin Kerr has written … Continue reading
Jurisdiction & Ethics (Lessons 8-9)
“This wasn’t right, damn it. This wasn’t fair.” –Quoted from Ben Mezrich, The Accidental Billionaires. In our next lecture (2/22), we are going to re-enact another pivotal scene from the movie “The Social Network”–a scene based on chapter 16 of … Continue reading
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Antonin Scalia
We had the honor of meeting the gregarious Antonin Scalia on several occasions during his visit a few years ago to the Pontifical Catholic University in Ponce, Puerto Rico, where we used to teach. At a faculty luncheon in his honor, … Continue reading
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A Bayesian Model of “Making a Murderer”
In our previous posts (here and here), we revisited two of our research papers–one on range voting; the other on the Turing Test–and created alternate legal universes in which jury trials were decided using a range voting procedure or some … Continue reading
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The Turing Test and “Making a Murderer”
In our previous blog post, we applied the concept of “range voting” to jury trials. Today, we will discuss our 2012 paper “The Turing Test and the Legal Process” (published in volume 21 of the journal of Information & Communication Technology … Continue reading
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Range Voting and “Making a Murderer”
Hey, what’s up? For our part, we’ve just finished watching season 1 of the amazing Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer, which shows beyond a reasonable doubt how one criminal suspect, Steven Avery, was framed (not once, but twice) by … Continue reading
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Bargaining and Betrayal in Breaking Bad
Last fall, we posted the abstract to our work-in-progress titled “Breaking Bad and the Natural Law Tradition.” Originally, we were going to write about the conflict between meth kingpin Walter White (alias Heisenberg) and DEA agent Hank Schrader from a … Continue reading
The facemash fiasco (Lessons 1 & 2)
Because our large business law class meets only once per week (on Mondays), we are going to combine Lessons 1 & 2 into a single lecture. In addition, we are going to re-enact Mark Zuckerberg’s fall 2003 “Ad Board” hearing … Continue reading
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prior probability 