A big win for climate activists in Montana offers lessons for Virginians

The Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic at the University of Virginia School of Law filed this amicus brief on behalf of San Bernardino...

Research correlating stringency in land-use regulation to low housing supply, high housing costs, and segregation relies on surveys of planners about...

Cities have been largely absent from the theory and legal doctrine of federalism, especially in the United States, where federalism is understood to...

Income inequality is a national preoccupation, and the public’s imagination is captured by the astronomical incomes of Valley tech billionaires and...

On Aug. 14, a Montana district court released a groundbreaking decision for climate change activists. In Held v. Montana, the court announced that...

This article discusses the links between climate and debt sustainability by focusing on how climate mitigation and adaptation are paid for, and who...

The 1968 Fair Housing Act required local government recipients of federal money to take meaningful actions to affirmatively further fair housing (AFFH...

Environmentalists are frustrated that President Joe Biden agreed to greenlight the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline, or MVP, as part of the...

In 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court decided PennEast Pipeline Co. v. New Jersey. The case is often associated with a theory of private delegation--that is...

Rural America, as has been well documented, faces many challenges. Businesses and people are migrating to more urban and suburban regions. The...

California’s legislature has passed several laws that intervene in local land-use regulation in order to increase desperately needed housing...

The issue of state separation of powers generally is not one that the federal courts have had much occasion to address. Recent issues have arisen...

A key question in the academic and policy debates over the optimal architecture for sovereign debt has long been whether sovereigns should be given...

Observers of metropolitan dysfunction have long advocated for a regional tier of government that could (among other things) equalize spending across...

On May 25, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court dropped an absolute bombshell with its ruling in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency. Early assessments...

The Supreme Court’s new term begins on the first Monday of October. But before delving into the most important environmental case yet to be heard, it...

Environmental justice is rooted in an understanding that people of color and low-income communities are more likely than the population at large to...

Studies of federalism, especially in the United States, have mostly centered on state autonomy and the vertical relationship between the states and...