Anne LaChance compares how the educational systems of four Canadian provinces responded to the Covid pandemic. Read more here.
James Gardner explores a number of new challenges to judicial federalism, including America's increasingly polarized and nationalized politics. Read more here.
The Congressional Research Service examines the relationship between federalism and the U.S. Constitution's Army Clause. Read more here.
Michael Weingartner writes that although federal court deference to state-court interpretations of state law is one of the "core tenets of judicial federalism," the U.S.…
Utah has filed a lawsuit challenging the federal government's ability to hold on to unappropriated lands indefinitely. More than 60 percent of the state's lands…
Kamaile Turcan contends that the Roberts Court's attacks on the administrative state have resulted in a "Court-driven recalibration of the federal power structure [that] ultimately…
Cori Alonso-Yoder and Tania N. Valdez write that the U.S. Supreme Court "sidestepped" an immigration federalism feud earlier this year when it did not…
Jonathan Abel examines state-court data related to the crime of being a felon in possession of a firearm to explore the "federalization of crime."…
T. Ajam writes that provincial governments in South Africa have been "hollowed out" by relocation of functions. Read more here.
Michael Doran explores the idea that federal Indian law exists at the intersection of two paradigms: exceptionalism and assimilationism. Read more here.
Steven Clear argues that the British government should devolve the property, rights, and interests known as the crown estate. Clear writes that doing so…
Eleanor Klibanoff reports that in the wind-down of federal aid following the Covid-19 pandemic, Texas has led the nation in quickly purging people --…
Scott Kafker and William Blanchette consider how the Massachusetts judiciary has responded to a U.S. Supreme Court statement in its Jones v. Mississippi decision that states are free to…
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