State & Local Government

Gerald E. Frug & David J. Barron, City Bound: How States Stifle Urban Innovation (Cornell Univ. Press 2008).

Gerald E. Frug, Richard Ford & David J. Barron, Local Government Law: Cases and Materials (West Acad. Publ’g 6th ed. 2015).

Jill Lepore, Rock, Paper, Scissors, New Yorker (Oct. 6, 2008).

Jill Lepore, The Commandments, New Yorker (Jan. 9, 2011).

Lawrence O. Gostin, I. Glenn Cohen & Jeffrey P. Koplan, Universal Masking in the United States: The Role of Mandates, Health Education, and the CDC,…

Jill Lepore, Elegy for a School Year, New Yorker (June 14, 2012).

Alan M. Dershowitz, San Francisco Is The Canary In The Coal Mine For Where Wokeism Is Headed, Daily Caller (Dec. 1, 2022).

Nikolas Bowie, An Unconstitutional Threat to Sanctuary Cities, Take Care (Mar. 21, 2017).

Nikolas Bowie, What Happened on United Is Terrible, But What’s Going to Happen Everywhere Is Worse, Take Care (Apr. 11, 2017).

Nikolas Bowie, Trump Is Weakening His Only Defense of the Sanctuary Cities Order . . . by Enforcing It, Take Care (Apr. 26, 2017).

Nikolas Bowie, The Federal Statute on Sanctuary Cities Doesn’t Say What the Trump Administration Thinks It Says, Take Care (Apr. 27, 2017).

Samuel Weiss, Into the Breach: The Case for Robust Noncapital Proportionality Review under State Constitutions, 49 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 569 (2014).

Nikolas Bowie, Sessions Retreats, but Doesn’t Surrender, on Sanctuary Cities, Take Care (May 23, 2017).

Nikolas Bowie, The Highest Court in Massachusetts Declares the Commonwealth a Sanctuary State, Take Care (Jul. 24, 2017).

Frank I. Michelman, State Power to Govern Concerted Employee Activities, 74 Harv. L. Rev. 641 (1961).

Frank I. Michelman, Political Markets and Community Self-Determination: Competing Judicial Models of Local Government Legitimacy, 53 Ind. L.J. 145 (1977).

Frank I. Michelman, Alumni Distinguished Lecture in Jurisprudence – Conceptions of Democracy in American Constitutional Argument: The Case of Pornography Regulation, 56 Tenn. L. Rev.

Frank I. Michelman, States’ Rights and States’ Roles: Permutations of “Sovereignty” in National League of Cities v. Usery, 86 Yale L.J. 1165 (1977).

Frank I. Michelman, “Terry Firma”: Background Democracy and Constitutional Foundations, 99 Mich. L. Rev. 1827 (2001).

Gregory Elinson & Robert H. Sitkoff, When a Statute Comes with a User Manual: Reconciling Textualism and Uniform Acts, Emory L. J. (2022).

Nikolas Bowie, Opinion, Will Puerto Rico Still Be Allowed to Govern Itself?, N.Y. Times, Oct. 14, 2019.

Frank I. Michelman, “Protecting the People from Themselves,” or How Direct can Democracy Be?, 45 UCLA L. Rev. 1717 (1998).

Frank I. Michelman, Rhetoric and Substance of Self-Government, 4 Cornell J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 510 (1995).

Jeffrey S. Sutton, 51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law (Oxford Univ. Press 2018).

Lauren Canary, Michael Ninburg, Phil Waters, Robert Greenwald & Adrienne Simmons, State Policies Limiting Progress towards Elimination in the US, 72 Hepatology (Special Issue) 604A…

Frank I. Michelman, The Bill of Rights, the Common Law, and the Freedom-Friendly State, 58 U. Miami L. Rev. 401 (2003).

Jay D. Blitzman, Where You Live Matters, CommonWealth Mag. (May 23, 2020).

Jay D. Blitzman, It’s Time To Raise The Age, CommonWealth Mag. (June 13, 2020).

Jay D. Blitzman, Seize The Opportunity For Expungement, CommonWealth Mag. (July 20, 2020).

Laurence H. Tribe, Chris Green & Kelsey Eberly, The Supreme Court shouldn’t meddle with California’s standards on meat and eggs, L.A. Times (Oct. 10, 2022).

Gerald E. Frug & David J. Barron, The Census As a Call to Action, 29 Fordham Urban L. J. 1387 (2002).

David J. Barron & Eric M. Zolt, When Local Control Goes Out of Control, Wash. Post, July 15, 2001, at B5.

Gerald E. Frug & David J. Barron, Make Eminent Domain Fair for All, Bos. Globe, Aug. 12, 2005, Op-Ed.

Gerald E. Frug & David J. Barron, City Limits, Bos. Globe, Feb, 25, 2007 at E1.

David J. Barron, Privatizing the Constitution: State Action and Beyond, in The Rehnquist Legacy 345 (Craig M. Bradley ed., Cambridge Univ. Press 2006).

David J. Barron, The Promise of Cooley’s City: Traces of Local Constitutionalism, 147 U. Pa. L. Rev. 487 (1999).

Gerald E. Frug & David J. Barron, The Census As a Call to Action, 29 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1387 (2002).

David J. Barron, Gerald E. Frug & Rick Su, Overruling Home Rule, Commonwealth Mag., Winter 2004, at 15.

Gerald E. Frug & David J. Barron, Making Planning Matter: A New Approach to Eminent Domain, Harv. Design Mag., Spring/Summer 2005, at 71.

David J. Barron & Gerald E. Frug, Defensive Localism: A View of the Field from the Field, 21 J.L. & Pol. 261 (2005).

David J. Barron, Gerald E. Frug & Rick Su, Dispelling the Myth of Home Rule: Local Power in Greater Boston (Rappaport Inst. 2004).

Gerald E. Frug & David J. Barron, International Local Government Law, 38 Urb. Law. 1 (2006).

David J. Barron, A Localist Critique of the New Federalism, 51 Duke L.J. 377 (2001).

David J. Barron, Why (and When) Cities Have a Stake in Enforcing the Constitution, 115 Yale L.J. 2218 (2006).

David J. Barron, Reclaiming Federalism, Dissent, Spring 2005, at 64.

David J. Barron, Reclaiming Home Rule, 116 Harv. L. Rev. 2255 (2003).

David J. Barron, The Community Economic Development Movement: A Metropolitan Perspective, 56 Stan. L. Rev. 701 (2003)(reviewing William Simon, The Community Economic Development Movement, Law,…