The twentieth anniversary of Kelo v. City of New London is coming up on June 23. Kelo is the controversial Supreme Court decision which held that privately owned "economic development" was enough to satisfy the Fifth Amendment requirement that the government can only condemn property for a "public use." The Yale Journal on Regulation has a symposium forthcoming on the anniversary. My contribution, entitled "Public Use, Exclusionary Zoning, and Democracy," is now available for free download on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
