
Brian Highsmith
@bd_highsmith
institutions, inequality, geography, power, democracy | @Harvard_Law fellow | social policy PhD candidate | former consumer lawyer & economic policy advisor
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I’m grateful for the opportunity to share some reflections—about courts and the institutional entrenchment of oligarchy, drawing lessons from state constitutionalism—in this great collection. Check out “Court Reform Can’t Be Limited to ‘Reforming Courts’”: rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/court-ref…




When housing researchers asked Seattle fire officials about their unique building code that permits single-stair buildings, they were met with a shrug. "It was this emperor’s no clothes moment," Alex Armlovich said vox.com/housing/410115…


People think of Abundance as an argument about deregulation vs regulation, but it is more about diffuse vs centralized decision making—in housing, energy, and infrastructure, we, as Marc J. Dunkelman explains, leaned so far into decentralized authority we’ve paralyzed ourselves



"If you’re driving a two-ton SUV at 40 mph, you get a traffic ticket, but if you’re riding an e-bike at 16 mph, you are summoned to criminal court." Ben Furnas nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/06/05/lyf…


Lina Khan Samuel Levine Stephanie T. Nguyen Brian Highsmith Aadhithi Padmanabhan In the second Note, William Weightman (SLS ’25) examines the history, structure, and merits of municipal public banking. stanfordlawreview.org/print/article/…

