Is It Time for Cities to Go It Alone?

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

From a legal and economic perspective, the document discusses housing affordability as a key global issue for well-being, economic growth, and...

During oral arguments in a child abuse case, some Texas Supreme Court justices seemed open to the possibility that the amendment protected parental...

This comment on Katrina Wyman and Danielle Spiegel-Feld’s new book, Local Greens: Cities and Twenty-first Century Environmental Problems, argues that...

This paper, presented as the William J. Brennan Jr. Lecture at the Oklahoma City University School of Law in November 2025, argues that American...

This week, Virginia's State Air Pollution Control Board was in court asking the Virginia Court of Appeals to revive its ill-conceived plan to leave a...

“In a time when disinformation is being laundered through government agencies, the responsibility to protect evidence-based care falls to courageous...

Trump’s assault on local government should usher in a new era of self-sufficiency.

Contrary to previous research and press accounts, we find limited evidence that persons who worked the polls in the past, including the 2020 election...

Puerto Rico. Detroit. Stockton. Arkansas. Each of these places stands as a testament to the import of municipal debt crises and their capacity to...

In City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, the Supreme Court reversed the Ninth Circuit’s holding that the Eighth Amendment prevents governments from...

Symposium on the Twentieth Anniversary of Kelo v. City of New London

The power of eminent domain is an inherent attribute of sovereignty, not a power...

The United States is awash in local governments. Not only does every state create local governments, but every state relies on those local governments...

State public utility commissions are at the forefront of the clean-energy transition. These state agencies, which have jurisdiction over energy...

The view that international law functions independently of municipal law (hermetically), does not reflect contemporary international practice. Instead...

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

More than a year after the Supreme Court found there is no fundamental right to get an abortion, 21 states have laws in effect that ban abortion well...

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