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Over the past ninety years, cities and states have increasingly shifted control and oversight over government services from elected officials to quasi-private entities, called "public authorities". Today, public authorities perform thousands of…

State preemption laws strictly limit local governments from regulating beyond their borders. Local governments, however, face a broad spectrum of challenges which cannot be confined to municipal borders. These challenges freely flow in and out of…

Our essay questions how we understand local governance of the environment. From the perspective of those outside a city, the city can be understood through an external perception of what is “good” or “bad” about the city. One might visit a city to…

For almost as long as advocates have sought to promote social change through public law litigation in the federal courts, some judges in those same courts and the litigants sued in them have engaged in a conscious and concerted effort to limit this…