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Federalism At The Cathedral: Property Rules, Liability Rules, And Inalienability Rules In Tenth Amendment Infrastructure, Erin Ryan
University of Colorado Law Review
This Article explores the consequences for good governance of poorly constructed legal infrastructure in the Tenth Amendment context, and recommends a simple jurisprudential fix: exchanging a property rule for the inalienability remedy rule that the Supreme Court used to protect the anticommandeering entitlement in New York v. United States. Grounded in a values-based theory of American federalism, it shows how the New York inalienability rule unnecessarily removes tools for resolving interjurisdictional quagmiresexemplified by the radioactive waste capacity problem at the heart of the New York litigation-by prohibiting novel forms of state-federal bargaining. In New York, the Court held that Congress …
Constitutional Contours For The Design And Implementation Of Multistate Renewable Energy Programs And Projects, Robin Kundis Craig
Constitutional Contours For The Design And Implementation Of Multistate Renewable Energy Programs And Projects, Robin Kundis Craig
University of Colorado Law Review
States are increasingly considering multistate efforts to promote the production, sale, and use of renewable energy. For example, in August 2009, policymakers and stakeholders gathered to consider joint renewable energy (specifically, wind energy) transmission projects among Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. This Article explores a number of constitutional issues that multistate efforts to encourage, market, transmit, or distribute renewable energy could raise. It reflects the reality that for energy, as for many other issues, multistate creativity in establishing new governance regimes or in implementing interstate projects often creates constitutional ambiguities. Many of these ambiguities center on the constitutional status-private …