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Forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review: “Disenfranchisement Creep” by Bryna Godar
Forthcoming in the Southern California Law Review: “The Supervisory Power of State Supreme Courts” by Adam Sopko
New York University Law Review: “State Legislative Vetoes and State Constitutionalism” by Miriam Seifter
Wisconsin Law Review Special Issue 2024: “Public Law in the States”
Scholarship | State Democracy Research Initiative
Wisconsin Law Review Special Edition featuring papers from our June 2023 Conference
Call for Papers: Federalism Scholarship Roundtable
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 …
West Academic: “Election Law in a Nutshell” by Dan Tokaji and Rob Yablon
Wisconsin Law Review Special Issue 2023: “Public Law in the States”
Scholarship | State Democracy Research Initiative
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.