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Citybnb: Has the Time Come for Homegrown Alternatives to Short-Term Rental Platforms?

May 29, 2018 Conflicts between local governments and short-term rental platforms like Airbnb are growing, and in some cases getting ugly. Platform critics point to studies suggesting they...

John J. Infranca

Conflict of Laws Recent Case

Singer v. City of Newton

Massachusetts District Court Finds Portion of Local Drone Ordinance Preempted by FAA Regulation.

Vol. 131 No. 7 May 2018

Civil Rights Recent Ordinance

Seattle, Wash., Ordinance 125393

Seattle Bans the Use of Criminal History in Rental Decisions.

Vol. 131 No. 6 April 2018

Immigration Blog Essay

Municipal Suffrage, Sanctuary Cities, and the Contested Meaning of Citizenship

January 19, 2018 In November 2016, the city of San Francisco enacted a ballot initiative that was somewhat overshadowed by other election results. It permitted noncitizens with...

Kenneth Stahl

Local Government Blog Essay

The Sharing Economy and the Upside of Disrupting Local Governance

November 21, 2017 We tend to think of states as the classic site of Brandeisian experimentalism, but cities, counties, towns and other local governments — by virtue...

Immigration Blog Essay

Immigration, Federal Authority, and City Hall

October 19, 2017 Cities are once again center stage in our national debate over immigration. A decade ago, the focus was on whether cities can participate in...

Rick Su

42 U.S.C. § 1983 Articles

How Private Insurers Regulate Public Police

Vol. 130 No. 6 April 2017 A string of deadly police-citizen encounters, made public on an unprecedented scale, has thrust American policing into the crucible of political conflict. New social...