Which matters more--spotted owls or the right to cut timber on your own land? Who has a greater right to the water of the Colorado River--California farmers, Denver housewives, or whitewater rafters? The vitally important right to property--from land to copyrights--is threatened by overzealous bureaucrats, ecological extremists, and an arbitrary judiciary.
JAMES V. DeLONG has lived in the belly of the beltway beast for over 40 years, working for government agencies, trade associations, think tanks, and himself.
He has written two books, Property Matters: How Property Rights Are Under Assault and Why You Should Care (Free Press 1997) and Out of Bounds and Out of Control: Regulatory Enforcement at the EPA (Cato Institute 2002). He has also written extensively for The American, Reason, the Claremont Review of Books, the National Review, and other journals, and for think tanks, including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute, The Progress & Freedom Foundation, and the Convergence Law Institute.
For four years, he ran PFF's Center for the Study of Digital Property, and he has blogged on intellectual property and tech industry issues both at PFF and on behalf of Digital Society.
He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was Book Review Editor of the Harvard Law Review, and of Harvard College, where he majored in American History.
A list of his publications is at http://convergencelaw.com/filings_pubs/Pubs-by-Author.shtml.
