Calibrating Environmental Review to the Scope of Municipal Discretion Under the HAA
This is the last in a four part series. SLoGLaw thanks Chris Elmendorf and Tim Duncheon for this timely treatment of the important issue...
Christopher S. Elmendorf & Tim Duncheon
Dec 2, 202111 min read
Does the HAA (or anything else) Provide a Remedy CEQA-Laundered Project Denials?
Here is Part 3 or this four-part series: The HAA prevents cities from denying or reducing the density of housing projects, but it doesn’t...
Christopher S. Elmendorf & Tim Duncheon
Dec 1, 202116 min read
How CEQA and the HAA Became “Super”
In yesterday’s post, we asserted that the recent denial of a downtown housing project in San Francisco portends a generational clash of...
Christopher S. Elmendorf & Tim Duncheon
Nov 30, 20219 min read
A Seismic Shift in Land Use Law?
Late last month, observers erupted in fury when San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted down a proposal to build nearly 500 new homes...
Christopher S. Elmendorf & Tim Duncheon
Nov 28, 20215 min read
Canonizing Local Governments
This last July, the Michigan Supreme Court dusted off an obscure canon of statutory construction to resolve a high-profile case involving...
Roderick M. Hills
Nov 24, 20215 min read
What Does it Take for a City to Decarbonize its Buildings?
Ithaca, New York made headlines recently with its announcement that it would fully decarbonize its buildings. The city’s Energy...
Sarah Fox
Nov 22, 20214 min read
Looking for Local Courts
ProPublica recently published a heartbreaking, maddening, and deeply upsetting story about a local juvenile court and justice system in...
Justin Weinstein-Tull
Nov 10, 20213 min read
Upcoming Symposium on Direct Democracy and State Constitutionalism, Featuring Judge Jeff Sutton
James Madison is famous for many things, but chief among them was his distaste of direct democracy. Madison believed that popular...
Jonathan L. Marshfield and Anthony Schutz
Nov 10, 20214 min read
Hirschl Symposium: Author Reply on Urban Agglomeration and Constitutionalism As Global Imperative
I thank the editors of SLoG Law Blog and of course my interlocutors for their spirited engagement with the arguments put forth in my...
Ran Hirschl
Nov 9, 20217 min read
Hirschl Symposium: Municipalities & Subnational Constitutions: What Creature of the Provinces Means
Ran Hirschl’s City, State identifies a silence among constitutional law experts in Western countries with respect to the implications of...
Kristin R. Good
Nov 5, 20215 min read
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”...
Gabriella Saputelli
Nov 4, 20214 min read
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...
davidschleicher
Nov 4, 20211 min read
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...
Mathew Idiculla
Nov 3, 20215 min read
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...
Maartje De Visser
Nov 3, 20215 min read
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...
Meryl Chertoff
Nov 3, 20213 min read
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...
Clay Gillette
Oct 29, 20214 min read
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...
Meryl Chertoff
Oct 29, 20212 min read
Scaling Up State and Local Government Efforts to Ensure A Just Transition
Sheila R. Foster & Chiara Pappalardo The Biden Administration has focused his governing agenda on recommitting the United States to the...
Sheila R. Foster
Oct 29, 20214 min read
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...
Sara Bronin
Oct 28, 20213 min read
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 28, 20216 min read
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...
Jeffrey Sutton
Oct 26, 20218 min read
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...
daniel.rodriguez
Oct 26, 20213 min read
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...
Katrina M. Wyman & Jeff Sebo
Oct 24, 20216 min read
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...
Clay Gillette
Oct 24, 20214 min read
