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Subtitle: “A rumble in the takings jungle” (by F. E. Guerra-Pujol) As I mentioned in a previous post, my friend and colleague Ilya Somin and I disagree whether the Takings Clause requires the payment of compensation for coronavirus shutdowns. I … Continue reading →

I interrupt my reply to Ilya Somin to share this beautiful film clip (hat tip: @kottke) with my loyal followers.

Subtitle: “A rumble in the takings jungle” (by F. E. Guerra-Pujol) Yo, what’s up? For my part, I recently discovered that my friend and colleague Ilya Somin (pictured below, left), a law professor at George Mason University, wrote up this … Continue reading →

Subtitle: Just compensation for staying at home, part four (by F. E. Guerra-Pujol) At the end of my previous post, I mentioned that the power to order “non-essential” workers to stay at home arises out of a State’s general police … Continue reading →

Subtitle: Just compensation for staying at home, part three (by F. E. Guerra-Pujol; revised 3/28) I presented in two previous posts an outline of my natural rights or “takings” approach to the current economic lockdown. (See here and here.) In … Continue reading →

Hello, fellow hobbits! I am once again interrupting my natural rights analysis of the economic shutdown to pose the following irreverent question: Why is it that the same elites (see two flagrant examples pictured below) who are shutting down all … Continue reading →

Subtitle: Just compensation for staying at home, part two (by F. E. Guerra-Pujol; revised 3/26) As I mentioned in a previous post, I would apply a “takings” model to the economic shutdown. In other words, any government order requiring non-essential … Continue reading →

On behalf of all “non-essential” workers who have lost their jobs due to the current economic shutdown (as well as all “non-essential” business firms that have had to close their doors), I interrupt my “natural rights” analysis of the coronavirus … Continue reading →

Subtitle: Just compensation for staying at home, part one (by F. E. Guerra-Pujol) While I agree with consequentialists (like my colleague Romans Pancs) that the costs of a worldwide economic shutdown are probably too high relative to the modest (but … Continue reading →

I featured in my previous post my colleague Romans Pancs’s consequentialist critique of the “lockdown” approach to the current virus. Although I tend to agree with Professor Pancs’s provocative conclusion that the risk a 1% mortality rate does not justify … Continue reading →