Evers v. Marklein – Amicus Brief, Wisconsin Supreme Court On March 27, the State Democracy Research Initiative’s faculty co-directors Miriam Seifter and Rob Yablon filed an amicus brief along with six other legal scholars in …
State Constitutions
Explainer: Proposed Wisconsin Constitutional Amendments on Election Administration
Emily Lau, Staff Attorney PDF Available Here This April, Wisconsin voters will be asked to vote on two proposed amendments to the Wisconsin Constitution. To amend the Constitution, legislators in two successive legislative sessions must …
Wisconsin Supreme Court – Clarke v. Wisconsin Elections Commission Amicus Brief Filed
PDF Available Here On February 8, the State Democracy Research Initiative’s faculty co-directors Miriam Seifter and Rob Yablon filed a second amicus brief along with five other legal scholars in Clarke v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, …
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
Staff Attorney Emily Lau discusses SDRI’s new website 50Constitutions.org on WORT, Madison’s community radio station
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.
State Court Report: “Fifty Unique, Ever-Changing State Constitutions” By Emily Lau
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.
Miriam Seifter on Capital City Sunday: Professor Seifter discusses the separation of powers in the Wisconsin Constitution and the recent lawsuit challenging legislative vetoes.
Michigan Supreme Court – Mothering Justice v. Nessel Amicus Brief Filed
PDF Available Here On November 1, the State Democracy Research Initiative’s faculty co-directors Miriam Seifter and Rob Yablon submitted an amicus brief with four other legal scholars in Mothering Justice v. Nessel, a Michigan Supreme Court …