Feldman on Cities & Civil Society

Heidi Li Feldman (Georgetown University Law Center) has posted Cities, Government, Law, and Civil Society (Florida State University Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: For too long, legal commentators have developed accounts of law, governments and civil society, and rights to access that society, from a national-federal perspective. As Americans increasingly live in cities, it is time for legal theorists to concentrate on municipalities as the locus of civil society. From an American national-federal perspective, government and law play primarily a remedial role with regard to civil society, stepping in only to resolve great inequities, usually by creating legally recognized civil rights and enforcing them. Civil society and civil rights, however, exceed this cramped national-federal window on it. Throughout the United States today, civil society is a multi-faceted arena for social coordination and social cooperation, for consonant and…

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