…increasingly stem from procedural failures. The Constitution itself remains one of the most resilient governing frameworks ever written. It has endured civil war, industrial transformation, global conflict, technological revolution, economic…

…within the limitations of 19th century civil engineering skills and tools. The American freight railroad system essentially is bound and tied to the civil engineering decisions and constraints of the…

…targets civilians, for example last year’s government crackdowns on protests in Tanzania or rebel group attacks on civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Of last year’s 65 conflicts, 13…

…employment disruption, and civil rights. Those concerns are legitimate. Governments have a responsibility to protect their citizens. But there is an important question that receives too little attention: How effective…

…today in the court’s decision to agree to hear a case concerning interpretation of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 8, the key statutory procedural rule laying out “pleading” requirements. It’s…

…ISIS mean intervening in any number of civil wars? Well that depends on how smart your lawyers are (and I am only kind of smart and not a lawyer at…

…the Lehman Brothers financial services firm, which collapsed spectacularly in 2008, were in pre–Civil War cotton trading), its harbor full of ships carrying cotton and the products it enabled enslavers…

…The Deportation Cases, – Joyce Vance Civil Discourse The Trump administration wants a confrontation with the courts. Trump wants to try to break them. That’s an essential path forward for…

…the source for several of the arguments in Chapter Five, “Of Property,” in Locke’s Second Treatise on Civil Government. What part of the word “no” did Professor Piestein not understand?…

…economic output has grown by an average of 1.7 percent a year (the slowest since the Civil War); real business investment has crawled forward at only 0.8 percent per year;…