” The event will feature a conversation with Stephen Lennon, Senior Policy Adviser to USAID's bureau of Democracy Conflict and Humanitarian Affairs; Shannon Green, Senior Director of Programs at the Center for Civilians in Conflict; Jonathan Drimmer, Senior Adviser at Business for Social Responsibility; and Laurie Smolenski, Outreach and Development Officer with the Institute for Economics and Peace. [read post]

The Interplay between the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause and the Fifth Amendment’s Takings Clause: Is the Supreme Court’s Test for “Public Use” Merely Rational Basis? [read post]

You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of… [read post]