The Yale Law Journal

Nestor M. Davidson

Essay

The Dilemma of Localism in an Era of Polarization

Nestor M. Davidson

Localism discourse has long confronted a fundamental problem: how can we remain committed to decentralized decision-making while checking the excesses of local parochialism? This Essay proposes a new approach in our polarized era, emphasizing the joint role state individual rights and the often-igno…

Article

Localist Administrative Law

Nestor M. Davidson

To read the voluminous literature on administrative law is to inhabit a world focused almost exclusively on federal agencies. This myopic view, however, ignores the wide array of administrative bodies that make and implement policy at the local-government level. The administrativ…