Stephen Daisley writes that a growing "devoskepticism" in Scotland has left voters there "tired of devolution." Read more here.
Evangelos Razis and James C. Cooper contend that Congress should create a temporary moratorium on state artificial intelligence regulation. The writers also call for choice of law…
Sarthak Gupta contends that although the Supreme Court of India's recent decision to implement a state's proposed legislation even though the governor refused to take…
Lawrence Friedman writes that David Souter's years of experience in New Hampshire with the new judicial federalism and state constitutional law distinguished his "career from that…
The Kurdistan Democratic Party has sharply criticized national leaders in Baghdad of "undermining federalism" because of suspended budget payments to the Kurdistan region. Read…
The Pew Charitable Trusts will host an online discussion with two former American governors to explore the theme, "Federalism Tested: How States are Navigating…
An article in The New York Times looks back at litigation stemming from alcohol-related trade barriers existing among Canadian provinces. The Canadian Supreme Court affirmed the…
Jule Pattison-Gordon examines how localities continue to explore ways to reduce gun violence even as federal American Rescue Plan Act funding winds down. Read…
Wouter Veenendaal compares the effects that decentralization efforts in Italy and the Netherlands have had on democracy. Read more here.
The University of Michigan has posted an interview with Richard Primus about his new book, The Oldest Constitutional Question. Primus notes that the question he refers to…
In an op-ed in the University of North Carolina's The Daily Tar Heel concerning public health funding and federalism, Idania Rodriguez-Melendez asks: "when does too little federalism become a…
David S. Rubenstein contends that states should be allowed to take a leading role in regulating artificial intelligence, writing that "the decentralized nature of…
Benjamin Gonzalez O'Brien and Loren Collingwood contend that although the Trump administration is seeking to cut funding for jurisdictions that do not assist the administration's…
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