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David Schleicher

@profschleich.bsky.social
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Professor, Yale Law School.

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The Overhead Wire @theoverheadwire.com · 24/09/2026
Wednesday's Most Read # 1 - The Great American Property Tax Freak Out link.theoverheadwire.com/q4xjy SSRN David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social
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The Great American Property Tax Freak Out
There has been a lot of news over the last two years, so it is understandable that neither the mass media nor the legal academy has focused on what is happening
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Paul Graf @paulginva.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone interested in the efforts in red states to radically lower or eliminate residential property taxes ought to read this and the paper that accompanies it.
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"David Schleicher on how property taxes are evolving, underrated yet important ideas. Good sequence." marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
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Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Competitive market behavior with LLMs? 2. Prophets of the Marginal Revolution. 3. The university after AI. 4. Which African nations are spending on education? 5. @mattyglesias: “In an all-or-nothin...
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Urban Futurist Democrat @urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Cartoon of man turning calendar page from December 2020 and distressed to find next is January ''1979''
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Derek Gottlieb @derekgottliebphd.com · 15/09/2026
Extremely my shit
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
❗New Article❗ The Great American Property Tax Freakout! Since 2024, many states have radically reshaped their property tax systems.The changes are an example of a national trend of carving out influential groups from taxation, in this case a majority group: homeowners papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Great American Property Tax Freak Out
There has been a lot of news over the last two years, so it is understandable that neither the mass media nor the legal academy has focused on what is happening
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
❗New Article❗ The Great American Property Tax Freakout! Since 2024, many states have radically reshaped their property tax systems.The changes are an example of a national trend of carving out influential groups from taxation, in this case a majority group: homeowners papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Great American Property Tax Freak Out
There has been a lot of news over the last two years, so it is understandable that neither the mass media nor the legal academy has focused on what is happening
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 12/09/2026
“Landmarking just preserves pretty things. And it’s not like preserving the buildings keeps neighborhoods as they were. If that were the case the West Village would be full of artists and folk singers.” - @profschleich.bsky.social
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you want honor sites of sociocultural importance ...“just put up a fucking plaque. This is New York City. It’s not like it’s Paris or some European capital. It’s truer to the spirit of New York to tear down and rebuild instead of putting the city behind glass.” www.curbed.com/article/andr...
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The Last NIMBY in a YIMBY Town
Andrew Berman’s crusade to preserve the West Village has put him at odds with just about everyone.
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Joe Fish @sadbusdriver.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
working paper arguing that the 2019 NYC strengthening of rent control lead to substantially less property maintence and lower housing quality. beaubressler.github.io/papers/rent_...
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Lol. "Zoning reform won't work to address the housing crisis. Instead, let's pretend it's 1946." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/o...
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Opinion | How to Fix the Housing Crisis: Look to WWII
World War II proves the government can intervene directly to fix the housing crisis.
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Enabling Acts @enablingacts.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
American property law used to favor building. Since the 1970s, it shifted to protect incumbents who don't build. @rickhills.bsky.social @profschleich.bsky.social New Enabling Acts: 13 papers on housing, energy, and state capacity. www.enablingacts.org/p/may-20-fif...
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May 20: Fifteen forces driving the secular decline of American state capacity
New Legal Research on Building Abundance
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
New piece out in @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social on what will happen to NYC politics (and urban politics generally) if the murder rate keeps falling www.vitalcitynyc.org/nyc-declinin...
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Local Politics, After Murder
How does the decline of lethal violence change the way New York thinks about government leadership?
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The Regulatory Review @theregreview.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
America’s governance crisis is rooted in weak state and local capacity, so reformers should target state and local elections, procedures, and budgets, argue @profschleich.bsky.social of Yale Law School and @nbagley.bsky.social of @umichlaw.bsky.social. www.theregreview.org/2026/04/15/h...
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
"Boosting pensions “would do something” to keep workers, said David Schleicher, a Yale Law School professor who studies state fiscal systems, “but it’s not clear to me that it is the most or even a mildly efficient method for doing so.”
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Greg Shill @gregshill.com · 24/03/2026
✨Schrödinger’s Crosswalk ✨, joint work with a terrific interdisciplinary team, under submission to law reviews now. It’s a bit unconventional (6,600 words, including a table, plus maps) but, we hope, appealing for the right journal.
Crosswalks carve out a refuge where motorists must yield to people 
outside the vehicle. But crosswalks are creatures not just of engineering, but 
of law. The law everywhere protects pedestrians on foot in crosswalks, but 
that category is narrower than many likely expect. This Article shows that 
crosswalk protections vary widely and sometimes contradict the ordinary 
expectations of road users. Far from a safe harbor, the result is a form of 
jeopardy by law—a physical and legal space this Article calls Schrödinger’s 
crosswalk.
This Article presents the first comprehensive study of crosswalk right-of-
way law across all 50 U.S. states. Drawing on a systematic review of state 
statutes, administrative codes, and judicial decisions, it maps drivers’ legal 
obligations toward different categories of crosswalk users, including 
pedestrians on foot, wheelchair users, babies in strollers, bicyclists 
(conventional and electric), and e-scooter riders. In some states, drivers must 
yield to a person crossing in a wheelchair but not to a baby in a stroller; in 
others, the same crossing offers only ambiguous legal protection. A recent 
70% surge in pedestrian fatalities makes strengthening these protections 
urgent.
The Article follows its comprehensive study with a recommendation as 
bold as it is straightforward: states should amend statutory language 
governing crosswalks to map onto the intuitive concept of a pedestrian as 
someone unprotected by a vehicle. Like the cat in Erwin Schrödinger’s 
famous thought experiment—simultaneously alive and dead until observed—
a non-motorist today may be legally required to use a crosswalk yet not 
legally protected in it. As the population ages, transportation technology 
evolves, and SUVs and trucks grow further in popularity, this protection must 
be clarified and fortified.
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 13/02/2026
Michelle Wu seems like kind of a disaster for housing in Boston – very little progress on land use reforms, and supporting a quite draconian statewide rent control regime (rent hikes that can be below inflation, vacancy controls, only a 10-year exemption for new construction)? Yikes
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Wu Backs Rent Control, Rejects Citywide Rezoning
Boston's mayor threw her support behind a ballot question legalizing rent control, while rejecting any moves to legalize denser housing in single-family districts.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
this is so embarrassing. why is @justinbrannan.bsky.social endorsing our fuelgrannie retweeting local NIMBY gadfly for city council when she literally stood with Vickie Paladino and Curtis Sliwa at a protest against the affordable housing ballot measures
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CITY COUNCIL MEMBER
LUSTIN BRANNAN
ENDORSES
LAYLA LAW-GISIKO for city council
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laylalawgisiko I'm proud to have Justin Brannan's support. He has fought for public education. I will be a champion of public schools in our great district.Layla Law-Gisiko 罗蕾菈 reposted
fuelgrannie @fuelgrannie •2d
Replying to @jmaxmann openly and wrongly
Yimbro Bingo
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NIMBY!
JUST BUILD
MARKET RATE
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I'm fine with leveloper profits
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ComparisonLayla speaking with Sliwa and Paladino
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This is potentially a huge deal for construction costs @brianpotter.bsky.social @stephenjacobsmith.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
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Bedrock, an A.I. Start-Up for Construction, Raises $270 Million
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Probably some random variation in this, but NYC's murder rate continues to decline quickly this year, following last year's big decline. It's *70%* lower than at this time last year www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/...
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Every homeowner should be barred from future votes on housing since the potential for gain is far higher than Jesse Zwick's piddly ass nonprofit salary.
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Getting to do this lecture -- which sought to provide a structural explanation for why urban public services in America struggle despite the high productivity of our private sector -- was such a thrill! law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...
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Professor David Schleicher Delivers Inaugural Walter E. Meyer Lecture
Professor David N. Schleicher delivered his inaugural lecture — “Broken Machines: Law and the Challenge of Making Big Cities Work — before an audience of friends, family, and members of the Yale commu...
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Opinion Today @opiniontoday.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
OPINION TODAY featured podcast — @samuelmoyn.bsky.social and @profschleich.bsky.social speak with @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social about his new book, The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America. (Digging a Hole) opiniontoday.substack.com/i/177452350/...
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John Fabian Witt @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
A new pod episode! Come for the nudist beach scenes from the 1920s—stay for fights over the material foundations of 20th-c liberalisms.
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
🚨🚨New Pod!! 🚨🚨 We have @johnfabianwitt.bsky.social on the pod!!! @samuelmoyn.bsky.social and I talk with John about his amazing and must read new book, The Radical Fund podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
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Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast
Social Sciences Podcast · Yale Law School professors Samuel Moyn and David Schleicher interview legal scholars and dig into the debates heard inside law school halls.
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Daniel Trubman @danieltrubman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Lol, @profschleich.bsky.social was so real for pointing out a lot of housing in New York is ancient (and often kind of shitty): NYC actually does a GREAT job preserving (old as hell) housing!
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Daniel Trubman @danieltrubman.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I really appreciate the point from @profschleich.bsky.social that focusing on modest reduction in ULURP process length is misguided, as difficulty and time to prepare for ULURP is determined by the requirements of the process. The charter amendments will improve the full approval process.
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Really excited to deliver this lecture on political and structural explanations for the (lack of) quality of big city government services and regulations. Open to the Yale community. On October 27th, register now! law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...
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Professor David Schleicher to Present Inaugural Walter E. Meyer Lecture on Oct. 27
Professor David N. Schleicher will present the inaugural lecture of his appointment as Walter E. Meyer Professor of Property and Urban Law, titled “Broken Machines: Law and the Challenge of Making Big...
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
With proper link - i wrote this www.slowboring.com/p/eric-adams
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The Machine Man
The case for and against Eric Adams
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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Slow Boring forecast that Eric Adams might accomplish good things or housing or might devolve into an orgy of corruption. Turns out it was both. www.slowboring.com/p/the-path-f...
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Short Circuit @shortcircuitij.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Our Latest Podcast: Won't You Take Me To YIMBYTown? Recorded before a live audience at @yimbytown.bsky.social 2025! With @profschleich.bsky.social @andrewdfine.bsky.social & Ari Bargil of @ij.org! ij.org/podcasts/sho...
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
🚨New Pod!!🚨Sam Moyn and I kick off a new season of Digging a Hole by talking with the great Bob Bauer about the law and politics of executive power podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
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Bob Bauer
Podcast Episode · Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast · 09/19/2025 · 1h 6m
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Vital City @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Who isn't at those community board meetings where people line up to oppose developments? @profschleich.bsky.social explains why NIMBYism is so successful: it's about who attends versus who is actually impacted. This is democracy meets housing policy. www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/loc...
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Vital City | Local Democracy is Land-Use Policy
NIMBYism is an outgrowth of the shape of civic participation in our cities — and producing more housing means changing the dynamics.
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William Baude @williambaude.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Out today: The Fall of Affirmative Action, by Justin Driver www.amazon.com/Fall-Affirma...
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Justin Driver's new book is out today -- as smart and spicy a set of arguments as you'll find anywhere. One of our most essential public intellectuals. A must, must, must read. www.amazon.com/Fall-Affirma...
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The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education
The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education [Driver, Justin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Fall of Affirmative Action: Race, the Supreme Court, and the Future of Higher Education
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Open New York @opennewyork.org · 08/09/2025
"This brazen gambit should fail — for two reasons. First, the ballot language is plenty clear. Second, the BOE has no power to reject proposed charter revisions."
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Vital City | Let New York Vote for More Housing
Stop the underhanded campaign against charter revision ballot proposals.
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Emily Hamilton @ebwhamilton.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I think the commonwealth desperately needs procedural simplification to help upzoning stick in addition to the legal perseverance @profschleich.bsky.social recommends: www.theargumentmag.com/p/yimbys-bea...
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The complex interpretations of the NBA Constitution, evidentiary issues, and concerns about bias make the case for taking interpretative responsibility out of the hands of the Commissioner and putting it in the hands of a private-Court like institution papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Private Supreme Courts
Public law scholars often consider how to separate power among and within governmental entities in order to encourage that power to be used effectively. However
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I have a new column out in @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social about the forces and people who will make or break a Mamdani administration www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/mam...
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Vital City | Mamdani’s Facilitators, Frenemies or Foes
What the Democratic nominee promises may be less important than what these groups do.
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I have a new column out in @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social about the forces and people who will make or break a Mamdani administration www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/mam...
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Vital City | Mamdani’s Facilitators, Frenemies or Foes
What the Democratic nominee promises may be less important than what these groups do.
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Gross. It is far, far, far easier to understand what these ballot measures will do than it is to know anything relevant about city council candidates!
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Payton Chung @westnorth.com · 01/09/2025
Also, two more examples for @profschleich.bsky.social www.bisnow.com/washington-d... citybuildernc.org/p/raleighs-m...
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'Broken Process': Why 4,000 Units Of D.C. Housing Are Stuck In Federal Court
With 4,000 units of D.C. housing awaiting the decision of federally appointed judges, developers and planners say the process is stifling the District's growth
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Jerusalem Demsas @jerusalem.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
This morning, OG YIMBY @profschleich.bsky.social argues that the pro-housing movement needs to focus more on the problem of state trial court judges.
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I have a new essay @theargument.bsky.social on the increasingly challenging problem of NIMBY state trial court judges.
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 30/08/2025
Filtering happening in real time in Jersey City
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Someone just asked about this piece of mine about how land use regulations will limit and shape the benefits of self-driving cars and other transportation technologies. It's nearly 10 years old, but I think it holds up!! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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How Land Use Law Impedes Transportation Innovation
A certain breed of economists and techno-futurists regularly point to the potential for innovation in the transportation sector to spur economic growth. Such p
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Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 21/08/2025
Local government has been on HTC’s side so hard that one mayors ago NYC banned basically all new hotels at their request, the current mayor with a pretty different ideological disposition hasn’t tried to end the ban, and now we’re getting a third who probably won’t either!
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Miriam Seifter @miriamseifter.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
My latest scholarship roundup up for @statecourtreport.org covers interesting new work on state constitutions, state courts, federalism, and more. (Sorry to report that it’s the back-to-school edition!) statecourtreport.org/our-work/ana...
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Back-to-School Scholarship Roundup: State Courts, Constitutional Law, and Federalism
Recent books and law review articles discuss voter disenfranchisement, separation of church and state, and much more.
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Really interesting @alonlevy.bsky.social essay trying to explain not only the explanations for high infrastructure costs, but the underlying reasons for them...
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David Schleicher @profschleich.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
🚨New Paper🚨I have a new paper out today, discussing how Congress can reduce the costs of building infrastructure, despite the huge political roadblocks to doing so. Meet "The Priority List." It's a @brookings.edu @americanenterprise.bsky.social project. Hope you enjoy! www.aei.org/research-pro...
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