LAW-682 : Municipal Law

This course provides an introduction to the state and its local governments in all their many variations across the U.S.. Topics include presentation of; the constitutional, political, and legal debates about the allocation of power among the various levels of government, the predominant normative assessments of local government law, several models of local government law as reflected in current (U.S. and state) Supreme Court, including lower federal court decisions, and the basic state-local relationship and the rules that govern it.