The Impact of the Clarity Act in Spain
Francisco Javier Romero Caro examines why Canada's Clarity Act has exerted a strong influence on separatist movements in Spain, including how it has affected…
Francisco Javier Romero Caro examines why Canada's Clarity Act has exerted a strong influence on separatist movements in Spain, including how it has affected…
Heather Gerken proposes a federalism research agenda for the twenty-first century. According to Gerken, the legacies of the New Deal and the civil rights…
Joseph Kane contends that the United States is facing a water infrastructure crisis that has resulted in sharply rising water costs. He writes that…
Pursuant to a grant from CSF Associates: Publius, Eric S. Zeemering has published “Comparing Governance and Local Engagement in the St. Marys River Area…
In 2010, the Department of Justice published several Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) documents that would have required state and local governments to…
A group of scholars write that Puerto Rico continues to undergo a crisis of constitutional identity stemming from increasing control of the territory by…
Michael G. Breen has published The Road to Federalism in Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka: Finding the Middle Ground (Oxon: Routledge, 2018). The book traces how federalism…
Tabàrnia, carved from the coast of Catalonia, has declared its independence. The new country, however, is an entirely fictional one created to ridicule Catalonia's bid for independence. Read…
Hubert Kempf writes that fiscal federalism might not be the best solution in a monetary union if it fails to address non-cooperative behavior between…
The Trump administration's changes to the Affordable Care Act have shaken state insurance markets and raised prices for some people. States are taking diverging…
Michael C. Dorf writes that critics of Attorney General Jeff Sessions's new marijuana policy are correct to point out that the new policy contradicts…
Emily Robey-Phillips writes that Title IX is under threat by the Trump administration. She argues that states, as well as the federal government, have…
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has struck down the state's 2011 congressional district map as unconstitutional. The Republican Party has appealed the ruling to the…
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