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Diagonal Public Enforcement, Zachary D. Clopton
Diagonal Public Enforcement, Zachary D. Clopton
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Civics class teaches the traditional mode of law enforcement: The legislature adopts a regulatory statute, and the executive enforces it in the courts. But in an increasingly interconnected world, a nontraditional form of regulatory litigation is possible in which public enforcers from one government enforce laws adopted by a second government in the second government’s courts. That is, one government provides the executive while the second provides the legislature and the judiciary. I call this nontraditional form “diagonal public enforcement.”
Although diagonal public enforcement has escaped systematic study, one can find examples in U.S. courts going back more than a …