| Course
Description: The purpose of the course is to survey and
analyze the organization, powers, and duties of state and local
governments, their interaction, and how they fit within the increasingly
pervasive federal system. We will particularly emphasize finances,
home rule, state and local antitrust liability, development agreements,
impact fees, tax increment and other debt financing (including
state and municipal bonds), the rapidly expanding liabilities
of county government under Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act,
executive privilege, and the limits to federal authority over
state and local functions (the "Federalism" question).
Cases, statutes, ordinances, and explanatory articles form the
basis of the course. While we cover those aspects of state, local,
and federal relations which have particular relevance to Hawaii,
the course will also touch upon certain aspects of those relations
which are common elsewhere in the federal system. Control of activities
of one level of government by others, both directly and indirectly
by means of inducements, is a common theme. |
