November 11, 2016
Healing Through Decentralization
Donald J. Trump will be the 45th president of the United States. He was elected in perhaps the most polarized election of the last 100 years. We have, more and more,…
Posts filed under federalism
June 27, 2016
No, there’s not a market-liberal case for Brexit
I’ve been dismayed to see how many– not a majority, but a long way above “none”– of my libertarian friends on social media are either enthusiastic about British exit from…
January 18, 2016
RPF Reply the first: cities and states
First of all, let me thank all the contributors to the symposium. All were, one way or another, squarely within the audience I was hoping to reach with the book,…
January 11, 2016
Rationalism, Pluralism, and Federalism
“Federalism” is not in the title of Jacob’s book, but to an American constitutional lawyer it is one of the two most obvious sites of the tension that he discusses….
June 27, 2014
Nomos LV : Federalism and Subsidiarity
[self-promotion alert] Published today: Nomos LV: Federalism and Subsidiarity (hardcover or electronic). Nomos LV: Federalism and Subsidiarity, edited by James E. Fleming and Jacob T. Levy “In Federalism and Subsidiarity,…
July 01, 2012
The Supreme Court Decision, Freedom of Contract, and Federalism
Let us assume that the health-care individual mandate violates a moral right, freedom of contract. If so, non-lawyers may find it mildly surprising that Sebelius was not about freedom of contract….