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496 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 10 (1988)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0496 and id is 1 raw text is: PREFACE Most of the articles in this volume are revised versions of papers presented at an international conference, State Constitutional Law in the Third Century of American Federalism. The conference, held in Philadelphia in March 1987, was sponsored by the Center for the Study of Federalism, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in cooperation with the American Bar Association, the Philadelphia Bar Association, and the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergov- ernmental Relations. Members of the Conference Advisory Board were its chairperson, Robert N.C. Nix, Jr., chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; Shirley S. Abrahamson, associate justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin; James L. Dennis, associate justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana; Robert B. Hawkins, Jr., chairperson of the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations; Edward H. Hennessey, chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts; Seymour Kurland, Esq., chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association; Hans A. Linde, associate justice of the Supreme Court of Oregon; James T. McDermott, associate justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; and Stewart G. Pollock, associate justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Members of the Conference Planning Committee were Ellis Katz, Temple University; Ronald K.L. Collins, University of Puget Sound; Daniel J. Elazar, Temple University; A.E. Dick Howard, University of Virginia; John Kincaid, North Texas State University; Robert Peck, American Bar Association; Kenneth Shear, Philadelphia Bar Association; G. Alan Tarr, Rutgers University; Mary Cornelia Porter, Roosevelt University; and Robert F. Williams, Rutgers University. Special thanks are due to the National Endowment for the Humanities, which provided a grant in support of the conference. The views expressed by the authors of the articles in this volume do not necessarily represent the views of the Endowment or the views of the sponsoring organizations. The articles endeavor to present, analyze, and debate recent developments in state constitutional law, developments that have been largely unnoticed by the media and the public. Compared to developments in the constitutional law of the United States, developments in state constitutional law, particularly through the decisions of state supreme courts, receive little attention outside of a relatively small but growing circle of students and practitioners of state constitutional law. Indeed, given the dominance of federal constitutional law in contemporary American legal thought, state constitutional law is not formally taught in most law schools. Yet the nation's 50 state constitutions are the primary domestic governing documents in American life, and despite decades of expansion oftederal constitutional law, state constitutional law is not in retreat but is being reasserted in increasingly numerous and diverse ways. During the past decade, there has emerged a new judicial federalism, which has involved, among other things, a greater reliance upon state constitutions by state 10

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