Kellen Zale
- Sep 6, 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...