Gabriella Saputelli
- Nov 4, 2021
- 4 min
Hirschl Symposium: Encouraging human rights cities in Europe (and beyond): the “new EU framework”
In Ran Hirschl’s book, “Human rights cities” and “human rights cities movement” are described within “city self-emancipation initiatives”...
davidschleicher
- Nov 4, 2021
- 1 min
New Casebook: Baker, Gillette and Schleicher, Local Government Law (6th Edition)
As law professors who teach state and local government law are among the regular readers of this site, it seems like a good place for...
Mathew Idiculla
- Nov 3, 2021
- 5 min
Hirschl Symposium: What Next When Constitutionalization Does Not Empower Cities?
The 21st Century is hailed as the “Century of the City” as more than half of the world population is now living in urban areas, which is...
Maartje De Visser
- Nov 3, 2021
- 5 min
Hirschl Symposium: Between Empowerment and Emancipation
In his latest book, Ran Hirschl has once again set out to expand our constitutional imagination, this time calling on constitutionalists...
Meryl Chertoff
- Nov 3, 2021
- 3 min
Hirschl Symposium: Introduction, Contextualizing City Power Through a Global Lens
When Founding Editor Sheila Foster proposed a book symposium on Ran Hirschl’s new work City-State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity, we...
Clay Gillette
- Oct 29, 2021
- 4 min
Instituting Police Department Reform: Municipal Governance and Minneapolis Question 2
On November 2, residents of Minneapolis will vote on Question 2 – a proposition to amend the city charter to transform the Police...
Meryl Chertoff
- Oct 29, 2021
- 2 min
Excelsior
In the New York City public school classroom of the 1960's, localism was part of the curriculum, and I can still tell you the...
Sheila R. Foster & Chiara Pappalardo
- Oct 29, 2021
- 4 min
Scaling Up State and Local Government Efforts to Ensure A Just Transition
The Biden Administration has focused his governing agenda on recommitting the United States to the Paris Agreement and advancing...
Sara Bronin
- Oct 28, 2021
- 3 min
How Uncoordinated Land Use & Transportation Laws Thwart Climate Response
Climate change requires multi-level governmental response. Unfortunately, poor coordination between levels of government hinders our...
Jeffrey Sutton
- Oct 28, 2021
- 6 min
Symposium Response: Mountaineering Guides, River Crossers & Keen-Eyed Snorkelers Part 2
Let me start this second installment with the piece by Jessica Bulman-Pozen and Miriam Seifter, whose title, “Who Decides Who Decides,”...
Jeffrey Sutton
- Oct 27, 2021
- 8 min
Symposium Response: Mountaineering Guides, River Crossers & Keen-Eyed Snorkelers Part I
In the preface to Who Decides?, I acknowledge “the considerable scholarship already undertaken” with respect to the structure of our 51...
daniel.rodriguez
- Oct 26, 2021
- 3 min
Judge Jeff Sutton Pushes Curricular Boundaries
In my second year of teaching at Berkeley, I approached an esteemed senior colleague and asked him for his thoughts about my plan to...
Katrina M. Wyman & Jeff Sebo
- Oct 24, 2021
- 6 min
Food Law Policy: Eric Adams Can Innovate in NYC
On November 2, New York City voters are likely to elect Eric Adams as the city’s next mayor, a development that could herald a new era of...
Clay Gillette
- Oct 24, 2021
- 4 min
Teaching Cities in "The City"
Inspired by Nick and David’s posts on law school classes with local government themes, I thought I would mention a seminar that I...
davidschleicher
- Oct 22, 2021
- 4 min
Weekend Reading
I haven't done this for a few weeks, but here is some SLOG content to read this weekend... Bar Talk: Informal Social Interactions,...
Carolyn Shapiro
- Oct 21, 2021
- 5 min
Calibrating Judicial Review to the Times
Judge Sutton’s two books, Fifty-One Imperfect Solutions and Who Decides? contain fascinating history lessons, much food for thought, and...
Kate Shaw
- Oct 21, 2021
- 5 min
Who Defends: Judge Sutton's Vision and the Challenge of a Plural Executive
It’s no secret that this is a perilous moment for American democracy. We’re nine months out from a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol,...
Roderick M. Hills
- Oct 20, 2021
- 6 min
50 Decisionmakers, Explained
Judge Sutton’s Who Decides? is a gracefully written, good-natured, and open-minded book about the acceptance of pluralism in governmental...
Emily Zackin
- Oct 19, 2021
- 4 min
Who Decides: Diving into the Realm Beneath the Federal Level
This remarkably engaging and expansive book is about federalism, constitutionalism, and democracy, but as I sit down now to describe it,...
Richard L. Hasen
- Oct 18, 2021
- 3 min
& More News: Watch State Supreme Courts on Partisan Gerrymandering & Hold Your Breath on Fed Courts
After a decade and a half of uncertainty, the Supreme Court in Rucho v. Common Cause (2019) closed the federal courthouse door to claims...
Jessica Bulman-Pozen & Miriam Seifter
- Oct 18, 2021
- 5 min
Who Decides Who Decides
In Who Decides?, Judge Jeff Sutton provides an insightful, accessible primer on differences between state and federal constitutional...
Robert F. Williams
- Oct 18, 2021
- 5 min
Understanding State Legislatures through the Lens of Sutton's Separation of Powers Analysis
What better title for Judge Jeffrey Sutton’s new book than “Who Decides?” now that we are almost two years into the COVID-19 pandemic? A...
davidschleicher
- Oct 17, 2021
- 3 min
Law School Classes With SLOGgy Themes: The Law of State and Local Budgets
Following Nick's great post, I thought I'd describe my seminar, which I co-teach with Dick Ravitch, on the law of state and local budgets....
daniel.rodriguez
- Oct 15, 2021
- 3 min
Judge Sutton's Brief for State Constitutionalism: A Book Symposium from SLoGLaw Blog
With Chief Judge Jeff Sutton, we have a fascinating puzzle. Here is a one of our leading federal judges. An accomplished lawyer who has...
