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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]
23 Jan 2017, 5:53 pm by Joseph Fishkin
 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]
6 Jul 2017, 6:10 pm
More recently, Professors Jessica Bulman-Pozen and Heather Gerken have used the phrase “uncooperative federalism” to describe the ways in which state and local governments can in turn shape or resist these federal policies. [read post]
18 Jul 2013, 10:27 am by Joey Fishkin
 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]
9 Jul 2018, 9:30 pm by Ilya Somin
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]
2 Jan 2023, 11:41 am by Ilya Somin
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]
29 Jun 2018, 1:09 pm by Leah Litman
 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]
16 Feb 2020, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
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]
23 Apr 2018, 9:01 pm by Joanna L. Grossman
(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]
11 Jul 2012, 9:57 pm by Rick Hasen
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]
14 Oct 2021, 5:38 am by David Bernstein
" Eldik, Cosgrove, and Yale Law School dean Heather Gerken did not respond to requests for comment. [read post]
18 Nov 2021, 1:03 pm by Eugene Volokh
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]
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]
14 Feb 2012, 11:04 am by Tom Goldstein
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]
28 Aug 2022, 9:01 pm by Vikram David Amar
I find the start of each academic year invariably invigorating. [read post]