It’s Time for Home Rule in Virginia

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

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...

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

It is commonly assumed that local land use regulations—and especially single-family and other restrictive zoning classifications—limit housing supply...

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...

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...

For far too long, the federal government has failed to exercise its constitutional authority to mitigate the harms imposed by local policing. Absent...

San Francisco’s planning practice and process problems spring from local law that applies discretionary review to any permit and offers repeated...

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...