Infrastructures—whether physical, informational, digital—can have regulatory‐type effects. These include requiring, preventing, channeling, enabling, and nudging particular human and social behavior. Infrastructures also interact or compete with law. In these ways, infrastructures have major effects on social relations, identities, roles, capabilities, and possibilities. In today‘s world, infrastructures‐as‐regulation, and the enabling and controlling legal technologies and practices,...
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FEDERALISM: RETRENCHMENT, PROGRESS AND COMMUNITY IN AN AGE OF TRUMP AND BREXIT
The emergence of Brexit and of President Donald Trump have prompted a significant rethink of federalism, sovereignty, and who should decide notions of community. In both cases, charismatic leaders stoked nationalist resentment and anti-globalist back lash against global, cosmopolitan elites. The implications for federalism, the principle of subsidiary, and law have been enormous. At this...