Carla Main

Before becoming an author and journalist, Carla Main practiced as an attorney in New York City for ten years.  She worked in the areas of real estate, First Amendment and civil rights.  Until 2005, Main was an associate editor of The National Law Journal, where she edited the opinion page of the paper and wrote a column on law and society.  She has written for The Wall Street Journal, Policy Review, National Review, The American Lawyer and The New York Sun, among other publications.

Her book, Bulldozed, in addition to examining the history of eminent domain in America from the time of the Founders, is a sober, journalistic account of the events that occurred in Freeport, Texas.