davidschleicher
- Sep 9, 2021
- 4 min
Exclusionary Zoning’s Confused Defenders
I have a new paper out. Here’s the abstract (with a little more commentary below) Abstract In both economic and legal scholarship, a...
Sheila R. Foster
- Sep 9, 2021
- 5 min
Local Governments Lead on Climate Change Measures
Last week’s tropical storm Ida was another stark reminder of the realities of climate change and how vulnerable our infrastructure is to...
Sarah L. Swan
- Sep 7, 2021
- 4 min
The Many Public Disorders of Florida’s HB1
At the end of the legislative session in Florida this past spring, Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law the now infamous HB1 bill. HB1,...
Kellen Zale
- Sep 7, 2021
- 4 min
Preemption by Executive Order
Although one might hope that during a global pandemic, governments would be united against the common enemy of a deadly virus, the...
Nestor Davidson
- Sep 6, 2021
- 4 min
Can People in Cities Govern Directly? Not Sure, but I’m Skeptical States Should Decide
If you live in Seattle, or have visited lately, as I did last May, it is hard to ignore the depth of the crisis of the unhoused that the...
davidschleicher
- Sep 3, 2021
- 4 min
New Paper Friday
In what I hope will be a regular feature, I want to highlight a few papers and articles in state and local government law that I’ve read...
daniel.rodriguez
- Sep 1, 2021
- 4 min
Here is where Localism meets Federalism
My comrades have written great posts celebrating the value of a renewed focus on the state and the local and have made, in their own...
Miriam Seifter
- Sep 1, 2021
- 3 min
Bringing the States Into the Spotlight
I’m excited for this launch and hope it spurs new attention to state-level governance. In my view, our collective lack of attention to...
Sheila R. Foster
- Sep 1, 2021
- 4 min
Cities Are Where Most of Us Live, But Can Mayors Really Rule the World? Why We Should Be Optimistic
I could not be more excited about helping to bring this blog to life with this amazing group of scholars. For those of us who are...
Nestor Davidson
- Sep 1, 2021
- 4 min
How about we replace first-year con law with state and local?
Recently, local-government-law maven Kathleen Morris made the case that to enhance civic engagement in our era of great city innovation...
Meryl Chertoff
- Sep 1, 2021
- 1 min
Coming up!
Next week: we will have features on the California recall election’s constitutionality, Sarah Swan on Gainesville’s lawsuit against...
davidschleicher
- Sep 1, 2021
- 5 min
What Is This Blog? Are States and Local Governments Democracies? Those and Other Animating Questions
Given the great people involved, I would be excited and proud to be a part of this new venture no matter when it started. But I am...
