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

In 2016, the Arkansas Department of Human Services decided to make a change.'Rather
than having a nurse visit disabled residents at home to assess their care needs, the agency …

The past decade has witnessed the emergence and rapid spread of a new and aggressive
form of state preemption of local government action across a wide range of subjects …

The sharing economy is causing a seismic shift in the structure of retail and service
businesses. The change is coming so quickly that it is hard to contemplate its scope. A …

Fear of democratic decline is all around us. 1 A growing literature offers different diagnoses
of what ails American democracy. Some focus on severe economic or social inequality, 2 …

Localism, the discourse of local legal power and state-local relations, has returned to the
center of national attention, driven by gridlock at the federal level and sharply rising political …

Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose
transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social change. In City Power, Richard …

To read the voluminous literature on administrative law is to inhabit a world focused almost
exclusively on federal agencies. This myopic view, however, ignores the wide array of …

Local government law has fallen behind the times. Over the past two decades, economists
have developed a deep understanding of" agglomeration economics," or the study of how …

During the hardscrabble years of the late nineteenth century, racially restrictive covenants
pushed low-wage African-American workers to settle in White Level, a new residential …