Levin College of Law
Program in Law and Government
Led by Annie Brett · Levin College of Law
What we study
The program brings legal scholars, students and practitioners together to study how law shapes governance at the local, state, national and global levels. Its initiatives work as learning labs where law students do research on current questions.
What working here is like
- Reading, writing & theory
- Projects
- 2
- Papers
- 2
Current projects
Environment Initiative
Looks at how new technologies shape environmental governance, including oceans law and climate challenges in Florida.
Five research initiatives
State and local government, First Amendment, international, judiciary text and tradition, and environment.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- Dirty Water: The Failure of the Clean Water Act's TMDLs
2025 · eYLS (Yale Law School)
Looks at why the Clean Water Act's TMDL program has struggled to address pollution from nonpoint sources.
- Salvaging Article III
2025 · bepress Legal Repository
Argues admiralty law still matters and shows what it reveals about the federal courts and the Constitution.
Plain-language summaries are AI-written and reviewed by us; check the paper for details.
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