The Cambridge Law Journal

  • The Cambridge Law Journal (2001), 60 : pp 493-510
  • Cambridge Law Journal and Contributors 2001
  • DOI: 10.1017/S0008197301001209 (About DOI)
  • Published online: 21 November 2001

Table of Contents - 2001 - Volume 60, Issue 03  


ALTERED STATES: FEDERALISM AND DEVOLUTION AT THE “REAL” TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM

Sandra Day O’Connor a1
a1 Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States

Abstract

This article is the Sir David Williams Lecture delivered by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, in Cambridge in May 2001. In it the author considers the operation of the twin processes of devolution and federalism in the United Kingdom and contrasts it with their operation in the United States, where the different premises have produced different historical trajectories and different contemporary challenges. Yet federalism and devolution in the two countries also reflect many of the same values and thus present many of the same opportunities.


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