Sidebar Publishes Companion Piece to Federalization Snowballs
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Columbia Law Review‘s Sidebar is pleased to announce the publication of a companion piece to Federalization Snowballs: The Need for National Action in Medical Malpractice Reform by Professor Abigail Moncrieff of Boston University.
In her Essay, Professor Moncrieff discussed the way in which federal healthcare programs have effected states incentives by allowing states to externalize some of the costs of their malpractice policies, resulting in a need for federal regulation in that area. She called this a “federalization snowball”—federal intervention through spending programs creates a need for further federal regulation in areas that are traditionally state functions.
In her companion piece, A Closer Look at the Federalization Snowball, Professor Moncrieff explores the scope of the problem of federalization snowballs and its historical and theoretical underpinnings in a debate over the interpretation of the Spending Clause.
July 13, 2009 at 3:06 am
Posted in: Law Rev (Columbia), Law Rev Forum
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