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The AEI Federalism Project conducts and sponsors original research on American federalism, with particular emphasis on federal and state business regulation, legal developments and the role of the courts, and the prospects for rehabilitating a constitutional federalism that puts states in competition for productive citizens and businesses. Through its AG Watch, the Federalism Project monitors and comments on the increasingly active role of state attorneys general.
The AEI Federalism Project disseminates its research results and opinions through frequent conferences and other public events; through the Federalism Outlook, a newsletter written by the Project’s Director, Michael S Greve; through its website; and through books and publications in scholarly journals.
Competitive Federalism
Federalism comes in different shapes and shades. Depending on its organization, federalism may discipline or empower government at all levels; impede or promote the growth of government; produce competition or monopoly. AEI's Federalism Project explores and advocates a competitive federalism that puts governments in competition for mobile, productive citizens.
The Federalist Outlook
Federal Preemption: Principles and Politics#25 · June 4, 2007 |
Interstate Comity#24 · March 29, 2007 |
How to Think About Constitutional Change Part 2: Originalism, Pragmatism, and the Constitution#23 · August 2005 |
How to Think about Constitutional Change Part 1: The Progressive Vision#23 · June 2005 |
Washington and the States: Segregation Now#17 · May 2003 |
Commerce and the Constitution#15 · December 2002 |
The Supreme Court Term That Was and the One That Will Be#13 · July 2002 |
National Power, Post-9/11#9 · November 2001 |
Laboraties of Democracy: Anatomy of a Metaphor#6 · May 2001 |
Big Government Federalism#5 · March 2001 |
Federalism After the Election#4 · December 2000 |
Cooperation Does Not Work#3 · September 2000 |
The AEI Federalism Project#1 · July 2000 |
Law Review Articles
Federal Preemption: James Madison, Call Your Office 33 Pepp. L. Rev. 77 (2005). |
Compacts, Cartels, and Congressional Consent, 68 Mo. L. Rev. 285 (2003). |
Business, the States, and Federalism's Political Economy, 25 Harv. L. Rev. 895 (2002). |
Against Cooperative Federalism, 70 Miss. L.J. 557 (2002). |
Working Papers
Preemption in the Rehnquist Court: A Preliminary Empirical AssessmentMichael S Greve (November 17, 2004) |
Federalism Project Books
Federal PreemptionRichard A. Epstein & Michael S. Greve, eds. (May 2007) |
Competition Laws In Conflict: Antitrust Jurisdiction in the Global EconomyRichard A. Epstein & Michael S Greve, eds. (May 2004) |
Real Federalism: Why It Matters, How It Could HappenMichael S Greve (March 1999) |
Events
Federal Preemption: States' Rights, National InterestsJune 12, 2007Richard A. Epstein, Michael S. Greve, Charles Cooper, Judge Stephen F. Williams, Peter J. Wallison |
Massachusetts v. EPANovember 21, 2006Jonathan H. Adler, Michael S. Greve, Lisa Heinzerling, Barry Rabe, Edward W. Warren |
Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot SpitzerAugust 7, 2006Brooke A. Masters, Presenter; Michael S. Greve, Discussant; William H. Pryor Jr., Moderator |
Federal Preemption: Law, Economics, PoliticsApril 27, 2006Keynote Speaker, the Honorable Kenneth Starr; for complete list of panelists, please view conference information. |
The U.S. Senate Takes On Medical Malpractice ReformApril 24, 2006Ted Frank, Michael S. Greve, George L. Priest, Stuart L. Weinstein |
Proportional Representation: Path to Democracy?December 6, 2005Gerard Alexander, Jeffrey Anderson, Michael S. Greve, Donald Horowitz, Lindsay Lloyd, Andrew Reynolds, Michael Rubin, Andrew Shearer, Meyrav Wurmser, Judy Van Rest |
Testimony to Senate Judiciary CommitteeJuly 19, 2005Michael S. Greve |
5th Annual Supreme Court ReviewJune 29, 2005Jonathan H. Adler, Michael S Greve, Robert Nagel, Neil Siegel, Nina Totenberg |
State Tax Incentives for Business: Healthy Competition or "Race to the Bottom"?May 2, 2005Brannon P. Denning, Peter D. Enrich, Michael S. Greve, Loren Chumley, John P. James, Kevin Thompson, Chris Edwards |
Federalism Under the Influence: Dope, Booze, and the Commerce ClauseNovember 10, 2004Michael S Greve, Brannon Denning, Todd Zywicki, R. Hewitt Pate, Viet D. Dinh, John Eastman, Edward Warren, Richard A. Epstein |
The Free State Project: Move and Live Free?February 27, 2004Michael Barone, Alan Bock, Jason P. Sorens, Richard Vedder, Michael S Greve |
States, Citizens, and Corporations: Do the Justices Care? The Supreme Court's 2002-2003 TermJune 27, 2003Michael S Greve, Dan Schweitzer, Adrian Vermeule, John C. Yoo, Alan C. Raul |
What Now, Old Continent? Europe on the Way to a ConstitutionApril 16, 2002Jeffrey Anderson, William Cash, Andrew Moravcsik, Amity Shlaes, David Calleo, Rod Hunter, William Kristol, Jonathan Davidson |
Free Trade vs. States' Rights: Globalization and the Challenges to Local Democratic GovernmentJune 26, 2001Michael S Greve, Mark C. Gordon, David L. Aaron, Earl H. Fry |