The second edition features a series of articles that explore how some states preempted local authority across a host of issues during the pandemic.
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14 authors were tasked with working as advocate-researcher co-authors to produce short articles highlighting recent research findings, emerging issues, and data and research needs across seven policy fields.
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This pathbreaking reader presents and analyzes in concise form the most important preemption statutes and cases, along with commentary from the leading scholars in the field.
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This Article describes this politics by way of assessing the nature of—and reasons for—the hostility to city lawmaking. It also provides a current accounting of state preemptive legislation and assesses the cities’ potential legal and political defenses.
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This Essay examines the spread of the new preemption and explores the legal doctrines available to local governments for challenging it.
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This Issue Brief surveys the landscape of state preemption and offers “possibilities for strengthening home rule to advance progressive local policymaking.”
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