In a democracy, governments are not allowed to bind future governments.'Ordinary
legislation cannot be made unrepealable, and future governments are free to revisit the …

Chinese economic reforms have moved Mao's antiurban paradigm to an urban-driven
paradigm. Since the late 1980s, modernist reforms have led to large scales of urbanization …

Emerging environmental problems and technologies, coupled with the existence of mature
regulatory regimes governing most industrial sources of pollution, reveal with new clarity the …

It is difficult to critically question a way of life that seems normal. Despite considerable
prodding, I was largely ignorant and apathetic about the lives of animals until only a few …

A major question for liberal politics and liberal political theory concerns the proper scope of
government. Liberalism has always favored limited government, but there has been wide …

The application of regulations for the development of renewable energy facilities is one of
the key environmental conservation strategies being implemented in Japan. However …

Some scientists worry that the use of captive propagation as a conservation tool can
unintentionally divert attention and resources from habitat protection. This concern was …

Both the Supreme Court and leading legal scholars have cited federalism as a reason to
severely limit judicial enforcement of constitutional property rights. In Kelo v City ofNew …

For the last several decades there has been a wide-ranging debate in the United States
about whether government should be required to pay when it regulates uses of private …

The ESA is arguably the most powerful and stringent federal environmental law on the
books. Yet for all of the Act's force and ambition, it is unclear how much the law has done …