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Limiting Negative Option Billing

U.S. consumers spend billions every year automatically paying credit card bills for services for which they don’t realize they are being charged. This paper addresses the United States Federal Trade Commission’s attempts to regulate such negative option billing provisions, and advocates for regulations limiting the temporal scope of negative option billing for unused services.

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Peace or Justice?: Transitional Justice in Sierra Leone

Case studies of transitional justice in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Sierra Leone suggest that both peace and justice elements are necessary during transitional justice processes, both for sustainable development in the aftermath of conflict and for the creation of lasting peace.