Environmental Law
State Preemption of Local Zoning Laws as Intersectional Climate Policy
Chapter Three
Local Government
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Housing Law & Policy
Addressing Challenges to Affordable Housing in Land Use Law: Recognizing Affordable Housing as a Right
The rise of zoning at the dawn of the twentieth century ushered in an era of city planning that…
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Local Government
Power and Powerlessness in Local Government: A Response to Professor Swan
Are rural communities powerful or powerless? This question arises regularly in today’s national public and scholarly discourses. The collective interest in the issue of rural power stems in large part…
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Preemption
To License a LULU: Scaling Preemption-Driven Responses to the Regulation of Recovery Homes
In land-use law and policy, local governments regularly bear the burden of making unpopular decisions. Local governments enjoy some level of home rule — understood as legislative and regulatory authority…
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Policing
Prosecuting in the Police-less City: Police Abolition’s Impact on Local Prosecutors
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Criminal Law
Kangaroo Courts
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Criminal Law
Abolish Municipal Courts: A Response To Professor Natapoff
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Criminal Law
Criminal Municipal Courts
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Taxation
Tax Limits and the Future of Local Democracy
Property tax limits are state-level laws that place caps on local governments’ tax rates and revenue. These statutory limits, which put pressure on already strapped cities and counties in forty-six…
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Eighth Amendment
Martin v. City of Boise
Ninth Circuit Refuses to Reconsider Invalidation of Ordinances Completely Banning Sleeping and Camping in Public.