
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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Iām grateful for the opportunity to share some reflectionsāabout courts and the institutional entrenchment of oligarchy, drawing lessons from state constitutionalismāin this great collection. Check out āCourt Reform Canāt Be Limited to āReforming Courtsāā: rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/court-refā¦




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 emperorās no clothes moment," Alex Armlovich said vox.com/housing/410115ā¦


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



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


Lina Khan Samuel Levine Stephanie T. Nguyen Brian Highsmith Aadhithi Padmanabhan In the second Note, William Weightman (SLS ā25) examines the history, structure, and merits of municipal public banking. stanfordlawreview.org/print/article/ā¦


