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Yoani Sánchez interviews Yulier P.
I have featured Cuban surrealist street artist Yulier Rodríguez (a/k/a Yulier P.) on this blog several times before. Now, I just discovered his Instagram page; in addition, award-winning Cuban author and blogger Yoani Sánchez interviewed the grafitti artist in August … Continue reading
What’s the real reason Sam Altman was fired?
Yesterday (17 November), the board of directors of OpenAI unceremoniously fired Silicon Valley legend and ChatGPT boy wonder Sam Altman. According to the official announcement, Mr Altman was fired for his deceit and chicanery: “A deliberative review process by the … Continue reading
Travel update: Minneapolis
I am now in the Twin Cities to attend the Journal of Law & Public Policy‘s fall symposium on “Free Speech and the U.S. Constitution” and present my work-in-progress “Solving the Free Speech Dilemma.” Note: Although the symposium will take … Continue reading
*Speech markets*
That is the new title of my newly revised work-in-progress, which I will be presenting this Friday (17 November) at a daylong symposium on “Free Speech and the U.S. Constitution” (see here) at the University of St. Thomas School of … Continue reading
Gödel’s loophole and the lost lectureship (University of Vienna, 1938 to 1940)
Below is the next-to-last excerpt from my new work “Gödel’s Interbellum”; footnotes are below the fold: Following the Anschluss–Nazi Germany’s annexation of the Republic of Austria in March 1938–German law displaced Austrian law and the position of Privatdozent–Gödel’s official position … Continue reading
Database of Trump disqualification cases
I will resume my prequel to Gödel’s loophole in my next post, but in the meantime, following up on one my previous posts (see below) I recently discovered this comprehensive database of legal actions by activist groups and others trying … Continue reading
Gödel’s loophole and King Carol’s coup within a coup (Romania, February 1938)
As promised, here is another excerpt from my new work “Gödel’s Interbellum”; the footnotes are below the fold: Romania not only went from a constitutional monarchy to a constitutional dictatorship on February 10, 1938, when King Carol II unilaterally suspended … Continue reading
*almost monday*
I “shazamed” this song by the San Diego-based pop trio almost monday while I was in Chicago this weekend; enjoy! PS: I will resume my “interwar prequel” to Gödel’s loophole in the next day or two.
A Hayekian critique of Vicki Jackson’s keynote address on knowledge institutions
Vicki C. Jackson, the Laurence H. Tribe Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, delivered the keynote address at this year’s Constitutional Law Colloquium at Loyola Law School in Chicago. In summary, Professor Jackson’s talk, which was titled “Protecting … Continue reading
*Constitutional Crimes*
That is not only the title of this excellent survey of State and federal constitutional-level crimes; it was also my favorite work from this year’s Loyola Constitutional Law Colloquium. Shout out to the author: my colleague and friend Michael L. … Continue reading

