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Spending Clause
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ArticleVol. 103 · Iss. 6
Foreword: The Constitution and Public Finance—Why Now and Why Ever?
Each year, the Washington University Law Review publishes an issue featuring papers presented at our annual symposium. This year’s symposium, held at the Law…
Conor Clarke & Eric Kubo -
ArticleVol. 103 · Iss. 6
The Crisis of Appropriations Law
Introduction Appropriations law is a unique body of federal law. Appropriations law imposes its own somewhat baroque set of statutory interpretation rules, approves of…
Samuel R. Bagenstos -
ArticleVol. 103 · Iss. 6
The Missing Constitutional Law of Executive Conditions
Abstract This Article contributes to the development of the constitutional law of executive conditions. The appropriations presidentialism of the second Trump Administration—the shift from…
Nicole Huberfeld & Matthew B. Lawrence -
ArticleVol. 103 · Iss. 6
Public Functions and Private Resources
Abstract At the federal level, the boundary between public and private functions is under pressure. On top of longstanding trends toward privatizing government functions…
Zachary S. Price -
ArticleVol. 103 · Iss. 6
Against Doctrinal Siloing: Harmonizing Fiscal Federalism and the U.S. Constitution
Introduction The founders have been credited with “splitting the atom of sovereignty” in creating our federal system. Yet this revolutionary achievement has fractured into…
David Gamage & Darien Shanske -
NoteVol. 102 · Iss. 3
Safe at Home: Reimagining Address Confidentiality
On her fourth attempt to escape, a Michigan survivor hoped that her abuser would not find her this time. But, as in her previous…
Haley Bills -
ArticleVol. 101 · Iss. 5
The Debt Limit
Every couple of years, it seems, the debt limit shows up to wreak havoc in American law and public finance. By capping the face…
Conor Clarke -
ArticleVol. 101 · Iss. 4
Second-Class Administrative Law: Lincoln v. Vigil’s Puzzling Presumption of Unreviewability
Administrative law ordinarily presumes that someone hurt by “arbitrary and capricious” agency action may seek relief in federal court unless Congress says otherwise. Administrative…
Matthew B. Lawrence -
ArticleVol. 92 · Iss. 4
Disrupting Education Federalism
The ongoing expansion of federal influence over education in the United States provides a particularly salient time to consider how education federalism should be…
Kimberly Jenkins Robinson