August 23, 2024 The University of Wisconsin Law School’s State Democracy Research Initiative (SDRI) is pleased to announce a Federalism Scholarship Roundtable, to be held on April 25, 2025. The Roundtable will be co-hosted by …
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West Academic: “Election Law in a Nutshell” by Dan Tokaji and Rob Yablon
Wisconsin Law Review Special Issue 2023: “Public Law in the States”
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Wisconsin Law Review Special Edition featuring papers from our June 2023 Conference
Columbia Law Review: “State Constitutional Rights and Democratic Proportionality” by Jessica Bulman-Pozen & Miriam Seifter
This Article seeks to begin a new conversation about state constitutional adjudication. It first shows how in myriad defining ways state constitutions differ from the U.S. Constitution. These distinctive founding documents, prizing individual and collective self-determination alike, require their own implementation frameworks—not federal mimicry.
The Yale Law Journal Forum: “The Right to Amend State Constitutions” by Jessica Bulman-Pozen & Miriam Seifter
This Essay explores the people’s right to amend state constitutions, particularly in states that recognize the constitutional initiative. Together with other democratic rights that appear in state constitutions but not the federal charter, the right to amend recognizes popular sovereignty as an active commitment.
Wayne Law Review: “Survey of the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission’s Inaugural Redistricting Cycle” by Derek Clinger
As part of the Wayne Law Review’s Annual Survey of Michigan Law, Senior Staff Attorney Derek Clinger surveyed the lawsuits involving the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission during the Commission’s inaugural redistricting cycle (2021-2022)
Call for Papers: State Courts Scholarship Roundtable
August 28, 2023 The University of Wisconsin Law School’s State Democracy Research Initiative (SDRI) is pleased to announce a Roundtable on State Courts, to be held on April 19, 2024. The Roundtable will be co-hosted …
Wisconsin Law Review Special Issue 2022: “Interpretation in the States”
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Wisconsin Law Review Special Edition featuring papers from our June 2022 Conference
Duke Law Journal: “State Institutions and Democratic Opportunity” by Miriam Seifter
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This Article suggests steps that state courts, state officials, and organizers can take to protect state institutions. At the highest level, it shows how a richer theory and discourse surrounding state institutions can advance both state and national democracy.
Miriam Seifter Presents Lecture on State Institutions and Democratic Opportunity
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John Gedid Lecture Series Presents Miriam Seifter on State Institutions and Democratic Opportunity