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87 B.U. L. Rev. 1113 (2007)
Intrastate Preemption

handle is hein.journals/bulr87 and id is 1123 raw text is: INTRASTATE PREEMPTION PAUL DILLER* IN TRO D U CTIO N ............................................................................................. 1114 I. How CITIES BECAME POLICY INNOVATORS ..................................... 1117 A. The Old Regime of Dillon's Rule ............................................... 1122 B. The Emergence of Home Rule ................................................... 1124 C. Competing Normative Assessments of Home Rule .................... 1127 1. Justifications for Hom e Rule ............................................... 1127 2. Criticism s of H om e Rule ..................................................... 1132 II. IMPLIED PREEMPTION AS A TOOL OF INTEREST GROUPS ................... 1133 A. Frequent Opponents of Local Regulation .................................. 1134 B. Intrastate Implied Preemption Doctrine .................................... 1140 1. Prohibit/Permit and More Stringent ................... 1142 2. O ccupation of the Field ................................................... 1153 Il. A NEW APPROACH TO IMPLIED PREEMPTION: PRESERVING STATE SUPREMACY WHILE PROTECTING GOOD-FAITH LOCAL POLICY IN N O V A TIO N ...................................................................................... 1157 A. The Judiciary's Institutional Advantages in the Context of P reem p tion ................................................................................ 1159 1. G eographic Im partiality ....................................................... 1160 2. Tem pered Political Insulation .............................................. 1164 3 . S p eed ................................................................................... 116 6 B. Substantial Interference with State Law .................................... 1168 C O N C LU SIO N ................................................................................................. 1175 City policy experimentation is a catalyst for change at the state and national levels. From gay rights to the environment to public health, cities and other forms of local government are adopting new and innovative policies in the wake of inaction by the higher levels of government. The legality of these policies is frequently challenged, however, by claims that a city's ordinance has been preempted by state law. Despite the crucial importance of intrastate preemption to the question of city power, it has heretofore received scant academic attention. This paper demonstrates how, as currently applied, intrastate preemption dampens local policy innovation, which has a negative * Assistant Professor of Law, Willamette University College of Law. I thank Rich Birke, Stephen Crowley, Jennifer Evert, Hans Linde, Nick Rosenkranz, and Joe Singer, as well as all of the participants in the February 2007 Willamette Valley Junior Faculty Workshop, for their valuable comments. Lisa Findlay and Hadley Rose provided excellent research assistance. I am grateful to Georgetown University Law Center and Chris Knott in particular for allowing me to use the Law Center's library as a Visiting Scholar. I also thank Dean Symeon Symeonides for supporting this project through a summer research grant. 1113

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