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,...
davidschleicher
Oct 22, 20214 min read
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...
Carolyn Shapiro
Oct 21, 20215 min read
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,...
Kate Shaw
Oct 21, 20215 min read
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...
Roderick M. Hills
Oct 20, 20216 min read
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,...
Emily Zackin
Oct 19, 20214 min read
& 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...
Richard L. Hasen
Oct 18, 20213 min read
Who Decides Who Decides
In Who Decides?, Judge Jeff Sutton provides an insightful, accessible primer on differences between state and federal constitutional...
Jessica Bulman-Pozen & Miriam Seifter
Oct 18, 20215 min read
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...
Robert F. Williams
Oct 18, 20215 min read
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....
davidschleicher
Oct 17, 20213 min read
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...
daniel.rodriguez
Oct 15, 20213 min read
New Series: New Law School Courses With SLOGgy Themes, with a first post by Nick Bagley
We're kicking off a new series where law profs describe classes they teach with state and local government law themes. The idea -- all...
davidschleicher
Oct 15, 20213 min read
Judge Sutton Casts Classroom Spotlight on State Constitutional Law
Several years ago, I attended a panel discussion featuring four state supreme court justices. All of them bemoaned the lack of attention...
Nicole Stelle Garnett
Oct 15, 20214 min read
New Local Policy Podcast -- Edward Glaeser on his new book, cities, the pandemic, and more
The great urban economist Edward Glaeser came on the Digging a Hole podcast to talk about his new book, urban policy during and after the...
davidschleicher
Oct 12, 20211 min read
How Federalism Can Empower People to Vote with Their Feet
American state and local government has gotten its share of criticism in recent years, including on this blog. Instead of being...
Ilya Somin
Oct 11, 20214 min read
Abuse of Executive Discretion by State Officials on Local Budgets Shows Need for Robust Home Rule
This post is based on a presentation for the 2021 North Carolina Law Review Symposium "Home Rule in the 21st Century" It has been a...
Erin Scharff
Oct 7, 20214 min read
Is Enhanced Judicial Review the Correct Antidote to Excessive State Preemption?
This post is based on a presentation for the 2021 North Carolina Law Review Symposium "Home Rule in the 21st Century" The NLC HR21C...
Paul Diller
Oct 6, 20214 min read
The New Redemption Localism's Threat to Multiracial Democracy in the South
Daniel Farbman is Assistant Professor of Law at Boston College Law School. This post is based on his presentation for the 2021 North...
Daniel Farbman
Oct 5, 20214 min read
Some Thoughts on Anti-Localism and the National League of Cities’ Principles of Home Rule for the 21
In 2020, the National League of Cities (NLC) published the Principles of Home Rule for the Twenty-First Century, a groundbreaking new...
Richard Schragger
Oct 5, 20213 min read
Field Dispatches: North Carolina's "Bathroom Bill" Gives Way to Home Rule Approaches
Bob Hagemann is a partner at Poyner Spruill LLC in Raleigh, NC and served in the Charlotte City Attorney's Office for twenty-four years,...
SLoG Law
Oct 5, 20213 min read
2021 North Carolina Law Review Symposium "Home Rule in the 21st Century" coming October 8
The North Carolina Law Review Annual Symposium this year is on "Home Rule in the Twenty-First Century" We are delighted that the...
SLoG Law
Oct 5, 20211 min read
Vaccine Mandates in Texas: Revisiting an Historical Precedent
Yes, you heard right, a vaccination was mandated in Texas, as a condition for entry by Texas girls into public middle school, at age 11...
Meryl Chertoff
Oct 4, 20213 min read
Eric Adams and "Zoning Budgets"
In his recent interview with Ezra Klein, Democratic nominee for Mayor of New York City Eric Adams said: "We must all share the affordable...
davidschleicher
Oct 2, 20213 min read
From the COVID federalism trenches: the matter of mask mandates
Litigation proceeds apace with regard to Red state governor challenges to local mandates and private vaccine passports. Efforts by...
daniel.rodriguez
Sep 29, 20213 min read
SLoG Law
Sep 28, 20210 min read
