Category: Arizona State Law Journal Blog

By Natalie Heun.  Solar energy is booming in Arizona. The sunny Grand Canyon State consistently ranks among the highest in the country for most solar energy potential and is on track to install over 10,000 megawatts by 2028. The continued…

By Kyra Haas.  The United States Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision in Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado may drastically change the federal government’s involvement (or lack thereof) in how states form agreements with other states regarding water resources.  A deadline…

By Brock Meyer. Arizona, few may know, has a legacy within the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement: it’s the birthplace of the tricolor trans rights flag, designed by longtime Phoenix resident and trans woman, Monica Helms. Regardless of the flag’s fame, Arizona’s…

By Abbie Conrad.  In a unanimous decision earlier this year, the Arizona House Education Committee approved House Bill 2400, a bill that would change Arizona’s current school safety grant program. The bill’s provisions originally expanded the resources supported by the…

By Cathryn Newman.  The SunZia Transmission Project  In May 2023, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) approved the largest wind project in the Western Hemisphere and in U.S. History, the SunZia Transmission Project (SunZia). SunZia is…

By Sarah Wastek.  In January 2024, during her run for Senate, Kari Lake leaked a recording of a conversation she had with Arizona GOP Chairman Jeff DeWit. In the recording, DeWit hints that certain powerful people do not want Lake…

By Kate Kaufman. In Governor Katie Hobbs’s State of the State address, she proclaimed that Arizona “has long failed to live up to its obligation to adequately invest fairly in public education in every community.” Hobbs committed to making education reform…