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At some restaurants (like Qdoba), a side of guacamole is included in the price of your burrito, while at other places (Chipotle), the guac is extra. Not surprisingly, the cost of a burrito is about $1 more at Qdoba than … Continue reading →

Notice how both contestants solemnly promise to each other not to steal. Notice too how they provide compelling reasons in support of their promises. (Hat tip: Mike Munger.)

In our first business law class this semester (BUL3130), we introduced our students to the movie “The Social Network” (see preview below) and to the real-life protoganists in our semester-long case study on the origins and growth of Facebook: hacker … Continue reading →

This is what we were reading over the holidays: 1. Ernest Hemingway, A moveable feast. We returned to Hemingway’s Paris memoir. (Overall, this was our third reading of Hemingway’s vignettes of his early years in Paris.) Two details struck us … Continue reading →

Update (1/22): Steve Kolowich speculates here on whether Mr Obama could get a teaching job at a top U.S. law school given his thin (and fraudulent, we would add; see below) publication record. (Hat tip: Paul Caron, via TaxProfBlog.) Via … Continue reading →

As we mentioned in our previous post, we will be presenting our work in progress on “probabilistic interpretation” at this year’s Federalist Society Annual Faculty Conference. Since the conference is in San Francisco, our talk will make reference to the … Continue reading →

That is the title of our most recent work in progress; one of the research projects we were working on while we were on sabbatical. (Part 1 of the paper will be published in the University of LaVerne Law Review … Continue reading →

Via Chris Rodley: “A runaway trolley is about to create five trolley problems. Do you pull the lever and divert it, so it only creates one?”