Yasmin Dawood (Toronto): Democracy Divided: Campaign Finance Regulation and the Right to Vote. Geoffrey Nunberg (UC-Berkeley): The Social Life of Slurs. Roseann B. Termini and Anthony Knabb DiDonato (Widener): The Role and Mission of the United States Food and Drug Administration: Regulator, Watchdog, Facilitator, or “All of the Above”. Miroslava Scholten (Utrecht): In Defense of IRAs’ Democratic Legitimacy (on independent regulatory agencies). Adamu Audu Pam (Bern): The Centrality of Intellectual Property Law in the Fight Against Ebola Virus in West Africa. Joe Coscarelli on why banning travel from Ebola-affected countries makes no sense. Rumors of the UN’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Henry Farrell on Big Brother’s liberal friends: Sean Wilentz, George Packer and Michael Kinsley are a dismal advertisement for the current state of mainstream liberal thought in America — they have systematically misrepresented and misunderstood Edward Snowden and the NSA. Sex is serious: Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig on how feminists and Christians agree when it comes to consent. Matt O'Brien on Peter Thiel and the worst possible case for the worst possible idea, the gold standard. Predator: Douglas Ollivant on the secret origins of the drone revolution. The numbers they didn’t want you to see: Study finds that academic publishers basically charge whatever they feel like. A coalition comprising 80 top liberal arts colleges considers a new Open Access monograph publishing program — but will faculty support it? How a Nixon lawyer fell out of love with Tricky Dick and came to tell the real story of Watergate: David Greenberg reviews The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It by John Dean.
