Michael Diamond

Michael Diamond received his law degree from Rutgers University. His major focus became environmental policy when he realized that the regulatory systems that had been set up in the United States had failed. With rates of diseases like cancer, asthma, autism, and Alzheimer's climbing steadily, Diamond was the first to call for use of the little known civil emergency provision in the US Constitution to deal effectively with the crisis. He remains preeminent in the study of that provision-the...See more

Michael Diamond received his law degree from Rutgers University. His major focus became environmental policy when he realized that the regulatory systems that had been set up in the United States had failed. With rates of diseases like cancer, asthma, autism, and Alzheimer's climbing steadily, Diamond was the first to call for use of the little known civil emergency provision in the US Constitution to deal effectively with the crisis. He remains preeminent in the study of that provision-the domestic violence clause in Article IV, Section 4. "Use of it," Diamond says "will unseat corporate control in the United States." Diamond wrote Impasse both to entertain and make accessible to the public a true pathway to peace. The vision set forth in the novel is a new international order, one that works, finally, for the benefit of the earth and all its people. See less