Is Canada’s Governing Structure Outdated?
Writing that "Canada’s institutions, policies, federalism and even its constitution need to catch up to the 21st century," David Moscrop contends that the nation's federal…
Writing that "Canada’s institutions, policies, federalism and even its constitution need to catch up to the 21st century," David Moscrop contends that the nation's federal…
Bennett Cooper provides an overview of the process of certifying questions of law from a federal court to a state supreme court. He notes that…
Bill Lucia writes that Route Fifty has launched a weekly newsletter devoted to updating readers about the aid that the federal government sends to states…
Jacob Sullum writes that the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is considering whether the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency's classification of marijuana violates principles…
Dawn M. K. Zoldi reviews the history of airspace regulation and considers the boundaries between federal, state, and private landowner control over airspace. Read…
Bryce Young writes that the U.S. Department of Education's recent notification that Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender…
Ilya Somin describes how gun-rights advocates have begun to create "sanctuary jurisdictions" similar to pro-immigrant sanctuary jurisdictions that appeared during the years of the…
The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a Notice of Intention to revise a 2020 Trump administration change to the water quality certification rule of…
Jeffrey Clemens, Benedic N. Ippolito, and Stan Veuger have authored a National Bureau of Economic Research paper examining Medicaid and fiscal federalism during the…
Kenneth W. Kizer writes that the way the federal government, states, and localities responded to the coronavirus pandemic "provides a unique opportunity to examine federalism…
Gordon S. Wood reviews Alan Taylor’s latest book, American Republics, in Taylor’s series on the colonies and states in early American history (password required). Read…
Jessie M. Cross and Shelley Welton argue that the Affordable Care Act offers lessons in federalism that could be applied to the New Green…
Donald F. Kettl argues that America's decentralized form of government led to hundreds of thousands of deaths during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more here.
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