Introduction
Introduction
Introduction to the Special Issue on State and Local Governance
Many are well-acquainted with Justice Brandeis’s metaphor that states serve as laboratories of democracy. While dicta in the 1932 decision, New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann,1 Brandeis’s words have taken hold in legal scholarship and subsequent jurisprudence for nearly a century since. Howev…
Introduction
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Law of the Territories
The Yale Law Journal is thrilled to present a Special Issue on the Law of the Territories, which explores unresolved controversies and debates concerning the U.S. territories. In the pages that follow, our authors examine the complex and often-fraught relationship between the U.S. government…