Richard Schragger
- Oct 5, 2021
- 3 min
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...
SLoG Law
- Oct 5, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2021
- 1 min
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...
Meryl Chertoff
- Oct 4, 2021
- 3 min
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...
davidschleicher
- Oct 2, 2021
- 3 min
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...
daniel.rodriguez
- Sep 29, 2021
- 3 min
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...
Richard Schragger
- Sep 28, 2021
- 4 min
Why Doesn't Virginia Have Home Rule?
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the 1971 Virginia Constitution, which replaced the Jim Crow constitution of 1902. Last week, the...
davidschleicher
- Sep 17, 2021
- 5 min
The Beginning of the End of the Progressive Era in State Constitutional Law?
For the last 100 years or so, many state constitutions have included provisions that create alternatives to representative and political...
Maureen E. Brady
- Sep 15, 2021
- 10 min
Confederate Monuments and Local Government Law
On September 8, 2021, the commonwealth of Virginia finally removed its sixty-one-foot-tall statue of Robert E. Lee. For more than 130...
Matthew Lawrence
- Sep 14, 2021
- 7 min
In Defense of Sticky Waivers: Executive Entrenchment and the “Other” Texas Case
In health policy, education, and other areas with a major federal presence, the viability of state reforms depends not just on federal...
Sarah Fox
- Sep 14, 2021
- 5 min
Planning for Climate Change? Plan for Climate Change Gentrification, Too.
The last month in the United States has offered a preview of life in a changing climate. The hurricane-induced flooding and power...