Conflicting State and Local Laws

General Health Laws and Local Ordinances, Considered with Reference to State and Local Sanitary Organization.

Resolving conflicting laws and policy in integrated delivery systems development.

State medical marijuana laws: understanding the laws and their limitations.

Significant attention has been given to the debate regarding allowances for medical marijuana use since the 1996 California and Arizona ballot initiatives. State medical marijuana allowances, however, have existed since the mid-1970s. Much of the current debate stems from confusion about the various ways states approach the issue. In this paper, we present original legal research on current sta...

Valuing Laws as Local Amenities

The conventional approach to evaluating a law is to examine its effect on proximate behavior. To evaluate a new criminal law, for example, the conventional approach would look to changes in the crime rate. This paper argues instead that laws should be judged by the extent to which they raise housing prices and lower wages. The logic is that the value of a law, much like the value of a lake or a...

Restrictive State and Local Immigration Laws: Solutions in Search of Problems