prior probability

That is the title of this excellent paper by my colleague and friend Michael Smith, who is a law professor at St Mary’s School of Law in San Antonio, Texas.

P.S.: I have been meaning to blog about Professor Smith’s provocative critique of “originalism” months ago (see also his forthcoming work, “Is Originalism Bullshit?“), but it suffices to say this is one of those papers that I wish I had written first!

Sorry, not sorry!

He was the opposition presidential candidate and by all accounts (see this statement from the Carter Center, for example) is the true victor of the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election held on Sunday, 28 July: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmundo_González_Urrutia

These might be the mutterings of an old curmudgeon, but I still don’t get why beach volleyball is an Olympic sport. (See here, for example.) As far as the uniforms for the parade of nations are concerned (the opening ceremonies are my favorite part of the Olympics), I would award gold and silver medals to Team Mongolia and Team Haiti!

Via Remember Singapore, I am reblogging below a history of the Garden City’s famed “Road Safety Park”:

I wrote the first draft of “Gödel’s Loophole” in 2012, and it was published in the Capital University Law Review in 2013. Since then, it has been cited by Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker (see here) and has garnered its own Wikipedia page (here). Earlier this week, it became my first paper to be downloaded over 10,000 times on SSRN!

I could not help but contemplate our mortality as well as our moral obligations to our ancestors after visiting the great monoliths of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), so among other things, I revised and corrected my homage to my father during my travels and have now posted my work to SSRN; see here. (As an aside, although I blame President Kennedy for the Bay of Pigs disaster, I would be willing to submit my claim to an information market like the World Truth League.)

Although this year’s “Christmas in July” gift is for a specialized audience, I would still like to shout out a call for proposals (see here or here) from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. The deadline is this Friday, 26 July.

Update (7/26): I just submitted a session proposal titled “Adam Smith Problems” based on my co-authored work (with Salim Rashid), Die Adam Smith Probleme.