State Budget Cuts: The Undeclared War on the Middle Class

Extraordinary times beget extraordinary measures. Multiple national emergencies during the past quarter century have generated a pitched debate as to...

The history of public policy is littered with failures to solve large-scale social problems using interventions derived from behavioral science...

The Supreme Court has twice held since 2020 that statutory restrictions on the President’s removal power violate Article II of the U.S. Constitution...

Large language models (LLMs) now perform extremely well on many natural language processing tasks. Their ability to convert legal texts to data may...

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

In an era of supposed great equality, women are still falling behind in the workplace. Even with more women in the workforce than in decades past...

Countries hit by unexpected crises often look to their overseas diasporas for assistance. Some countries have tapped into this generosity of their...

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

A defining feature of the past two and a half centuries has been the extraordinary and unprecedented velocity of technological change. The rush of new...

This chapter studies political corruption and its many relationships to the law of democracy. It begins with bribery laws, which forbid officials from...

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...

There is concern that present-biased agents incur too much debt because of its deferred costs – concern that has influenced regulation of consumer...

Lenders are perfectly free to decide for themselves whether, when, how, to whom and on what terms they will extend credit to a sovereign borrower. But...

False information causes harm, threatening individuals, groups, and society. Many people struggle to judge the veracity of the information around them...

Many analyses of law take an unsentimental, perhaps even cynical view of regulated actors. On this view, law is a necessity borne of people’s selfish...

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

This article examines the impact of Greece retroactively, via legislation, changing the terms in hundreds of billions of euros worth of Greek...