David Phillips writes that the May 7 Senedd election could be more consequential than any other in Wales's twenty-seven-year experience with devolution. Phillips warns that although "additional devolution…
The Harvard Law Review has devoted an issue to developments in state constitutional law, including how state courts are rejecting so-called lockstepping as part of new…
Last month, a panel of the National Governors Association held a bipartisan discussion of the importance of federalism in the United States. You can listen…
Rebecca Thiess reports on how states are responding to recent, significant changes in federal funding and policies. Read more here.
Kelsey Reichmann reports on a recently argued case before the U.S. Supreme Court that has not garnered many headlines, but could result in a…
The U.S. Forest Service has announced that it has reorganized and plans to rely heavily on states to manage millions of acres of federal…
Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez reports that a number of states are passing laws to help keep children out of foster care and in temporary guardianships when…
Alasdair S. Roberts critiques Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian's book, A Sixth of Humanity. Roberts contends that, contrary to the authors' thesis, India suffers from over-centralization. Read…
Franck Salameh traces the development of Lebanon's governmental structure and contends that federalism offers a better path for the nation. Read more here.
The National Federalism Commission has published a review of significant events occurring in American federalism last month. Read more here.
Grant Christensen contends that the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 Loper-Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision, which circumscribed judicial deference to executive agencies, does not apply to agency decisions involving Indian…
W. Tanner Allread explores the history of the more than 200 indigenous constitutions in the United States. Read more here.
Anthony J. Bellia Jr. and Bradford R. Clark consider the history of so-called "federalism canons" and contend that such canons are "fully consistent with…
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