Defending Local Democracy, Legal Research & Analysis

LSSC & ABB Research

• Summary of Findings from the Legal Effort to Address Preemption

• State Preemption of Local Laws: Preliminary Review of Substantive Areas

• State-by-state summaries of Home Rule

• State Substantive & Procedural Constraints on Preemption Litigation

• Introduction to Federal Preemption

• Legal Memorandum on Brnovich v. Tucson:
  The Validity of Arizona’s Law Imposing Financial Penalties on Localities with Preempted Ordinances Following the Arizona Supreme Court’s Brnovich Decision

White Papers

• Blanket Preemption: A Troubling Effort to Stifle Progressive Local Policymaking & Block Local Democracy, by Professor Laurie Reynolds and A Better Balance

• Confederate Monuments and Punitive Preemption: The Latest Assault on Local Democracy, Professor Richard Schragger and C. Alex Retzloff

• Gerrymandering and Local Democracy, by Professor Paul Diller

• Punitive Preemption: An Unprecedented Attack on Local Democracy, by Professor Richard Briffault

• The State Assault on Local Sanctuary Policies, by Professor Rick Su

• Repealing Preemption: Defending Local Democracy Now Includes A Growing Focus on Recovering Lost Local Authority, by Laura Huizar
• The Essential Role of Fiscal Authority in Local Democracy, by Professor Erin Scharff

Law Review Articles

• “Intrastate Preemption,” Paul Diller, Boston University Law Review (January 2008)

• “The Rise of State Preemption Laws in Response to Local Policy Innovation,” Lori Riverstone-Newell, Publius: The Journal of Federalism (May 2017)

• “Public Health ‘Preemption Plus’,” James G. Hodge, Alicia Corbett, Kim Weidenaar, & Sarah Wetter, Journal of Law Medicine and Ethics, Vol. 45 (May 2017)

• “The Attack on American Cities,” Richard Schragger, Texas Law Review (August 2017)

• “The Troubling Turn in State Preemption: The Assault on Progressive Cities and How Cities Can Respond,” Richard Briffault et al, American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (September 2017)

• “The Challenge of the New Preemption,” Richard Briffault, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 14-580 (February 2018)

• “Hyper Preemption: A Reordering of the State-Local Relationship?” Erin Scharff, Georgetown Law Journal (September 2018)