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28 Jun 2011, 8:46 am
” Rick Hasen discusses the decision at his Election Law Blog, while at Balkinization, Heather Gerken contends that, with respect to the state of campaign finance doctrine, “what we are witnessing is a doctrinal death match between two incompatible world views. [read post]
5 Jun 2007, 8:06 am
It also poses a challenge for Professor Heather Gerken's proposed Democracy Index, which would make cross-state comparisons of election administration.Better information is thus a precondition for future election reform. [read post]
6 Apr 2009, 7:18 am
While Heather Gerken's shadow redistricting commissions and Sam Hirsch's redistricting contests are solid ideas, they run the risk of being controlled by elites. [read post]
13 Oct 2022, 3:45 am
Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken has since responded to the furor by issuing a statement putatively directed toward its alumni, many of whom are deeply concerned by what’s become of Yale. [read post]
18 Jul 2013, 10:27 am
So far it’s not an especially happy chapter for those who like the “cooperative” bit, as the states are in fact being distinctly “uncooperative” (see Jessica Bulman-Pozen & Heather Gerken’s important article). [read post]
23 Jan 2017, 5:53 pm
But the picture of which functions matter most changes during periods of intense political polarization, intense federal government dysfunction, or both (and our current political era, both pre- and post-Trump, is a cocktail with a whole lot of both).For example: Heather Gerken has argued that one central function of federalism, and indeed sub-federalism potentially “all the way down,” is to allow people who are in the minority in national policy disagreements to… [read post]
29 Jun 2018, 1:09 pm
Writing presciently several years ago, Dean Heather Gerken observed: It is sometimes hard for an older man to mentor a young woman without crossing a professional line. [read post]
9 Jul 2018, 9:30 pm
But in recent years, prominent left-of-center legal scholars such as Heather Gerken and Jeffrey Rosen have begun to argue that liberals should reconsider their stance on federalism more generally. [read post]
16 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm
Given that liberal states will as often be aligned against a conservative federal government as vice-versa, federalism doctrines like equal state sovereignty provide especially fertile ground for such jujitsu, as Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken has argued.Thus, it is not surprising that New York’s second federalism argument also relies on a line of Supreme Court cases conceived originally for conservative ends. [read post]
2 Jan 2023, 11:41 am
There is only modest overlap between the changes and the complaints raised by Yale Law School Dean Heather Gerken in her letter that kicked off the revolt against the US News rankings. [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 9:57 pm
See Heather Gerken, The Supreme Court Punts on Section 5, Balkinization (June 22, 2009) (“the statutory argument is one that almost no one (save Greg Coleman, the lawyer who argued the case and who is now entitled to be described as a mad genius) thought was particularly tenable because of prior Court opinions. [read post]
23 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm
(A lovely tribute by his former clerk Heather Gerken can be found here, and one by his former clerk and fellow Verdict co-columnist Michael C. [read post]
25 Jul 2012, 5:49 pm
By Anil Kalhan Last week, Chicago Mayor (and former Obama White House Chief of Staff) Rahm Emanuel reentered the national political fray, advising Mitt Romney that he should “stop whining” about the attention being given to his record at the helm — or was it “retroactively” not at the helm? [read post]
17 Jul 2008, 1:21 pm
I think it makes sense to start at the top. [read post]
18 Nov 2021, 1:03 pm
Gerken (the new Yale Law School lawsuit) will likely not be able to continue litigating under pseudonyms, though I hope to blog more about that soon. [read post]
26 Jun 2023, 6:30 am
For the Balkinization symposium on Christian G. [read post]
16 Apr 2022, 6:30 am
For the Balkinization symposium on Richard L. [read post]
11 Mar 2014, 7:56 pm
Camilla A. [read post]
28 Aug 2022, 9:01 pm
I find the start of each academic year invariably invigorating. [read post]
14 Feb 2012, 11:04 am
A favorite topic of mine has always been potential nominations to the Court, both as to who might be picked and whether the nomination will or won’t succeed. [read post]
