Bridget A. Fahey explores the intergovernmental market in private data collected by the federal government, states, and localities, and how this data moves among these…
The U.S. Department of Labor has issued a guidance letter to state unemployment agencies expanding waivers for individuals who marked "able and available" for…
Jennifer N. Le explores whether 2022 will be the year that the federal government legalizes cannabis. She contends that the government's “'half in, half out regime'…
Silvana Gomes examines the ebb and flow of fiscal transfers between the national government and the provinces. Read more here.
Andre Claudio reports on how cities and counties are using billions of dollars in federal funds made available by the American Rescue Plan Act.…
Nicholas Aroney and Albert H.Y. Chen explore the "one country, two systems" constitutional order as practiced in Hong Kong from 1997-2019. Read more here.
In an op-ed, Mark Weatherford offers suggestions to states and localities about the most effective way to handle federal cybersecurity aid. Read more here.
Kery Murakami reports that, more than a year after the departure of the Trump administration, distrust of the Department of Homeland Security's immigration policies…
Uday Desai has reviewed Donald F. Kettl's book The Divided States of America: Why Federalism Doesn't Work. Read more here.
A group of organizations have announced that a conference on federalism will be held in Paris on May 24, 2022. There is also a…
Michael Youash has contributed "The Nexus Between State Fragility and Federalism" to the Occasional Paper Series sponsored by the Forum of Federations. Read more…
Naftaly Mose examines what effect local fiscal decentralization has had on local economic growth in 47 Kenyan counties. Read more here.
Donald Devine contends that Randy E. Barnett and Evan D. Bernick's recent book, The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment, misapprehends the amendment's meaning. Read…
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