The War Room

This is the personal website of Professor Enrique Guerra-Pujol. (“Guerra” in English translates to “war” — hence the name of this website.) Brief bio: I was born and raised in Los Angeles and attended college at the University of California at Santa Barbara, graduating with highest honors, and received my Juris Doctorate from Yale Law School. After practicing business law for several years in San Juan de Puerto Rico, I began my academic career at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico. I am currently teaching at the University of Central Florida, and my main areas of research include markets, property rights, and jurisprudence.

Teaching

[Graduate Courses]

Advanced Business Law Topics (BUL5332)
Constitutional Law I & II
Law & Ethics (BUL6444)
Roman Law (Evolution & Development of the Institutions of the Civil Law)
Torts I & II

[Undergraduate Courses]

Legal & Ethical Environment of Business, Lecture Capture format (BUL3130)
Legal & Ethical Environment of Business, Online Format (BUL3130-RA)

[Seminars, CLEs, Workshops, Etc.]

Constitutional Aspects of Puerto Rico’s Political Status
Cyberlaw & Digital Commerce
Products Liability
The Federalist Papers

Research

[My Bayesian Papers]

The Case for Bayesian Judges, The Journal of Legal Metrics, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2019), pp. 13-20.
Why Don’t Juries Try Range Voting?, Criminal Law Bulletin, Vol. 51, No. 3 (2016), pp. 68-692.
Visualizing Probabilistic Proof, Washington University Jurisprudence Review, Vol. 7, No. 1 (2014), pp. 39-75.
The Turing Test and the Legal Process, The Journal of Information & Communications Technology Law, Vol. 21, No. 2 (June 2012), pp. 113-126.
A Bayesian Model of the Litigation Game, The European Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Autumn/Winter 2011/2012), pp. 220-240.

[My Law & Economics Papers]

Of Coase and Copyrights: The Law and Economics of Literary Fan Art, The NYU Journal of Intellectual Property (in press).
Does the Prisoners Dilemma Refute the Coase Theorem?, The UIC John Marshall Law Review, Vol 47, No. 4 (Summer 2014), pp. 1289-1318.
Trolley Problems, Drake Law Review, Vol. 63 (2014), pp. 101-119.
Modelling the Coase Theorem, The European Journal of Legal Studies , Vol. 5, No. 2 (Autumn/Winter 2012/2013), pp. 139-157.
Clones and the Coase Theorem, The Journal of Law & Social Deviance, Vol. 2 (2011), pp. 43-91.
Coase’s Paradigm, Indian Journal of Law & Economics, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2010), pp. 1-32.

[My PopLaw Papers]

Teaching Tiger King, forthcoming, St Louis University Law Journal.
So Long Suckers: Bargaining and Betrayal in Breaking Bad, The Journal of Strategic Contracting and Negotiation
Buy or Bite?, in Glen Whitman & James Dow, editors, The Economics of the Undead (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), pp. 123-129. (This paper was featured on the Freakonomics Radio podcast.)
El ajedrez in Blade Runner: lecciones de la Partida Inmortal, in Daniel Nina, editor, Blade Runner: memoria, vigilancia y el sujeto desechable, Ediciones Callejón (2008), pp. 105-130.

[My ConLaw Paper]

Domestic Constitutional Violence, UA Little Rock Law Review, Vol. 41 (2019), pp. 211-232.
Bitcoin, the Commerce Clause, and Bayesian Stare Decisis, Chapman Law Review, Vol. 22, No. 1 (2019), pp. 143-160.
Gödel’s Loophole, Capital University Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 3 (Summer 2013), pp. 637-673.
Coase and the Constitution, Richmond Journal of Law & Public Interest, Vol. 14, No. 4, (2011), pp. 593-609.
A Stag-Hunt Model of the U.S. Constitution, Revista de Derecho Puertorriqueno, Vol. 48, No. 1 (2008), pp. 15-21.

[My Legal History and Puerto Rico Papers]

Guaranteed Income: Chronicle of a Political Death Foretold, Chapman Law Review, Vol. 23, No. 1 (2020), pp. 99-125.
A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Puerto Rico Status Debate and Other Legislative Wars of Attrition, American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, Vol. 18, No. 3 (2010), pp. 625-648.
A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Impasse over Puerto Rico’s Status, St. Thomas Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 3 (2008), pp. 561-571.
The Pamphlet Wars: The Original Debate over Citizenship in the Insular Territories, Revista de Derecho Puertorriqueno, Vol. 38, No. 1 (1999), pp. 1-14.

[Reviews]

Cowen’s Capitalist Manifesto, review of Tyler Cowen 2019 love letter to big business, forthcoming.
The Problem with Precedent, review of Randy J. Kozel, “Settled Versus Right” (2017), published in The Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law, Vol. 12, No. 4 (2018), pp. 497-504.
Exit, Voice, and Boilerplate, review Nathan B. Oman, “The Dignity of Commerce” (2017), published in The New Rambler (July 17, 2017).
The Evolutionary Path of the Law, review of Ullica Segerstråle, “Nature’s Oracle” (2013), published in The Indonesian Journal of International & Comparative Law, Vol. 1, No. 3 (July 2014), pp. 878-890.
A Beautiful Life: Some Lessons for Legal Scholars, review of Jeremy Adelman, “Worldly Philosopher” (2013), published in The Mississippi College Law Review, Vol. 32, No. 3 (2014), pp. 495-501.

Service

[Department]

[University]

[Community]

“The War Room”

The War Room is also an informal discussion group that meets via Zoom every Tuesday at 6:00 PM (Eastern). The purpose of the War Room is to exchange ideas and discuss recent developments in law, and members of my scholarly circle include academics, philosophers, and my former students. If you would like to join our war room discussions, please contact me. The War Room is dedicated to the memories of my former colleagues Jorge Cordova and Carlos “Carlitos” del Valle.