Judicial Review, Local Values, and Pluralism

Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy; Winter2009, Vol. 32 Issue 1, 6-16

The article discusses the highlights of the Twenty-Seventh Annual National Federalist Society Student Symposium held at the University of Michigan Law School in Ann Arbor in 2009. Among the topics tackled were judicial review, local values and pluralism. It affirms a basic assumption of federalism that each communities can be different, they may have different values and they will have various laws. It explains how pervasive judicial review poses threat to local identity.

 Garnett, Richard W.

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