The Center for Constitutional Governance (CCG) at Columbia Law School is a nonpartisan legal and policy organization devoted to the study of constitutional structure and authority. CCG explores these issues in a range of policy areas, such as equality, elections, civil rights, health care, and administrative law. The Center for Constitutional Governance's work is especially timely now, when the contours of federal, state, and private sector authority, and the role of government itself, are at the forefront of national debate.
A central goal of CCG is to provide a forum where academics, government officials, practitioners, students, and others can engage with the major constitutional and governance issues of the day. To this end, CCG sponsors panels, conferences, workshops, and other public events that include a wide array of academics, current and former government officials, private practitioners, and nonprofit advocates. CCG’s home at Columbia Law School, one of the country’s premier academic institutions, allows CCG to bring together experts from across all sectors and all ideologies to engage in collaborative cross-disciplinary discussion and debate.
Articles
1930s Redux: The Administrative State Under Seige, Gillian E. Metzger
Abortion, Equality, and Administrative Regulation, Gillian E. Metzger
Administrative Constitutionalism, Gillian E. Metzger
Administrative Law as the New Federalism, Gillian E. Metzger
Administrative Law, Public Administration, and the Administrative Conference of the United States, Gillian E. Metzger
Administrative States: Beyond Presidential Administration, Jessica Bulman-Pozen
Agencies, Polarization, and the States, Gillian E. Metzger
Anti-Modalities, David E. Pozen and Adam Samaha
Appointments, Innovation, and the Judicial-Political Divide, Gillian E. Metzger
A Private Law Court in a Public Law System, Jamal Greene
Common Interpretation: Twenty-Second Amendment, F.H. Buckley and Gillian E. Metzger
Congress, Article IV, and Interstate Relations, Gillian E. Metzger
Considering Legitimacy, Gillian E. Metzger
Defining Crime, Delegating Authority – How Different are Administrative Crimes?, Daniel C. Richman
Elected-Official-Affiliated Nonprofits: Closing the Public Integrity Gap, Richard Briffault
Election Law Localism in the Time of COVID-19, Richard Briffault
Embracing Administrative Common Law, Gillian E. Metzger
Obergefell at the Intersection of Civil Rights and Social Movements, Suzanne B. Goldberg
Evaluating Constitutional Hardball: Two Fallacies and a Research Agenda, Joseph Fishkin and David E. Pozen
Executive Federalism Comes to America, Jessica Bulman-Pozen
Executive Underreach, in Pandemics and Otherwise, David E. Pozen and Kim Lane Scheppele
Facial Challenges and Federalism, Gillian E. Metzger
Federalism and Federal Agency Reform, Gillian E. Metzger
Federalism Under Obama, Gillian E. Metzger
Free Expression on Campus: Mitigating the Costs of Contentious Speakers, Suzanne B. Goldberg
From Sovereignty and Process to Administration and Politics: The Afterlife of American Federalism, Jessica Bulman-Pozen
Grutter at Work: A Title VII Critique of Constitutional Affirmative Action, Jessica Bulman-Pozen
Harassment, Workplace Culture, and the Power and Limits of Law, Suzanne B. Goldberg
How Federalism Built the FBI, Sustained Local Police, and Left Out the States, Daniel C. Richman and Sarah Seo
Institutional Competence and Organizational Prosecutions, Daniel C. Richman
Internal Administrative Law, Gillian E. Metzger and Kevin M. Stack
Introduction: The Place of Agencies in Polarized Government, Cynthia R. Farina and Gillian E. Metzger
Is Article 2 the Best We Can Do?, Robert E. Scott
Is Korematsu Good Law?, Jamal Greene
Is There Really a Sex Bureaucracy?, Suzanne B. Goldberg
Justice Kennedy's Prose – Style and Substance, Eric Segall, Eric Berger, Michael C. Dorf, and Jamal Greene
Memoriam: Justice John Paul Stevens, John G. Roberts Jr., David Barron, Alison J. Nathan, Christopher L. Eisgruber, Olatunde C.A. Johnson, and Eduardo M. Peñalver
Ordinary Administrative Law as Constitutional Common Law, Gillian E. Metzger
Our Regionalism, Jessica Bulman-Pozen
Overreach and Innovation in Equality Regulation, Olatunde C.A. Johnson
Panel One: Classification and Access to National Security Information, Mary-Rose Papandrea, Margaret Kwoka, David Pozen, and Stephen I. Vladeck
Partisan Federalism, Jessica Bulman-Pozen
Privatization as Delegation, Gillian E. Metzger
Reflections on Obergefell and the Family-Recognition Framework's Continuing Value, Suzanne B. Goldberg
Reframing Affirmative Action: From Diversity to Mobility and Full Participation, Susan P. Sturm
Remarks of Gillian E. Metzger, Gillian E. Metzger
Structural Biases in Structural Constitutional Law, Jonathan S. Gould and David E. Pozen
Taking Appropriations Seriously, Gillian E. Metzger
The Constitutional Duty to Supervise, Gillian E. Metzger
The Constitutional Legitimacy of Freestanding Federalism, Gillian E. Metzger
The Democracy Principle in State Constitutions, Jessica Bulman-Pozen and Miriam Seifter
The Interdependent Relationship between Internal and External Separation of Powers, Gillian E. Metzger
The Local Turn; Innovation and Diffusion in Civil Rights Law, Olatunde C.A. Johnson
The President and the States: Patterns of Contestation and Collaboration Under Obama, Jessica Bulman-Pozen and Gillian E. Metzger
The Presumption of Constitutionality and the Individual Mandate, Gillian E. Metzger and Trevor W. Morrison
The Puzzles and Possibilities of Article V, David E. Pozen and Thomas P. Schmidt
The Rites of Dissent: Notes on Nationalist Federalism, Jessica Bulman-Pozen
The Roberts Court and Administrative Law, Gillian E. Metzger
The Shrinking Constitution of Settlement, David E. Pozen
The States as National Agents, Gillian E. Metzger
The Supreme Court, Judicial Elections, and Dark Money, Richard Briffault
The Uncertain Future of Administrative Law, Jeremy K. Kessler and Charles F. Sabel
Through the Looking Glass to a Shared Reflection: The Evolving Relationship between Administrative Law and Financial Regulation, Gillian E. Metzger
To Tax, To Spend, To Regulate, Gillian E. Metzger
Towards a Law of Inclusive Planning: A Response To “Fair Housing for a Non-Sexist City”, Olatunde C.A. Johnson
Twenty-Second Amendment: Let it Be, Gillian E. Metzger
Unbundling Federalism: Colorado's Legalization of Marijuana and Federalism's Many Forms, Jessica Bulman-Pozen
Unburdening the Undue Burden Standard: Orienting Casey in Constitutional Jurisprudence, Gillian E. Metzger
What Happened in Iowa?, David Pozen
Blog Posts
Symposium: The Puzzling and Troubling Grant in Kisor, Gillian E. Metzger
Symposium: This Case is Moot, Jessica Bulman-Pozen and Adam Samaha
Books
How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights is Tearing America Apart, Jamal Greene
The Health Care Case: The Supreme Court's Decision and Its Implications, Nathaniel Persily, Gillian E. Metzger, and Trevor W. Morrison
The New Preemption Reader: Legislation, Cases, and Commentary on State and Local Government Law, Richard Briffault, Laurie Reynolds, and Nestor M. Davidson
The Perilous Public Square: Structural Threats to Free Expression Today, David E. Pozen
Book Chapters
COVID-19 and LGBT Rights, Suzanne B. Goldberg
COVID-19 and the Law: Elections, Richard Briffault
The New "Essential": Rethinking Social Goods in the Age of Covid-19, Olatunde C.A. Johnson
Book Reviews
A Perfectly Empty Gift, Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus
Working Papers
Beholding Law: Amadeo on the Argentine Constitution, Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus and Erin F. Delaney
Executive Federalism Comes to America, Jessica Bulman-Pozen
Facial and As-Applied Challenges Under the Roberts Court, Gillian E. Metzger
Of Laws and Men: An Essay on Justice Marshall's View of Criminal Procedure, Daniel C. Richman and Bruce A. Green
Power Transitions in a Troubled Democracy, Peter L. Strauss and Gillian E. Metzger
The So-Called Right to Privacy, Jamal Greene
The Story of Vermont Yankee: A Cautionary Tale of Judicial Review and Nuclear Waste, Gillian E. Metzger