State Aid to Private Higher Education

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...

The United States has been cultivating STEM talent for decades with great success, but that robust talent pipeline is threatened by a growing STEM...

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

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

In a 6-3 ruling on Thursday, June 29, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the use of race in college admissions at Harvard and the University of...

This story begins with one parent who took his demands for equal educational opportunity for his children all the way to the highest court of our land...

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...

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. – Victor Hugo

Analogous to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s critique of his leaders’ decision to use punishment as a...

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...

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez that our Constitution...

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

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

Gun-related violence and suicide in the United States are serious public health problems that are concentrated among young adults, especially those...

This Article examines the legal issues underlying hundreds of lawsuits, claiming unjust enrichment or breach of contract, brought by students who paid...