COUNTERMAJORITARIAN LEGISLATURES Page 1 COUNTERMAJORITARIAN
LEGISLATURES Miriam Seifter * State and federal courts routinely cast state legislatures in …

Democracy can take root anywhere, from community gardens to the most toxic workplace
environments. It's planted whenever people treat one another as political equals, allowing …

Our Constitution, as it is and as it has been interpreted by our courts, serves white
supremacy. The twin projects of abolition and reconstruction remain incomplete, derailed …

Land use reform has recently become the subject of contentious debate in the United States.
Once a fairly obscure and technical topic, zoning has become hot, spurred in large part by …

This Article argues that the manner in which class-action and impact lawyers have
traditionally litigated leaves little room for class participation in lawsuits, and that a new …

Since the 2020 elections, debate about the Supreme Court's relationship with the
mechanisms of national democracy has intensified. One important thread of that debate …

One characteristic of this age of political polarization is increasing conflict between states
and their cities. Pandemic-related regulation has been a recent flashpoint, with governors …

Millions of workers in the United States, disproportionately women, immigrants, and people
of color, perform low-paid, precarious work. Few of these workers can improve their …

We live, it is said, in a second Gilded Age, in which politics is dominated by corporate power
and elite business interests. But how does corporate money flow into politics? This Article …

Local democracy is under attack. By enacting what are known as" hyper preemption" laws,
state legislatures across the country have slashed cities' lawmak-ing authority, and with it …