Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2021
Journal Title
California Law Review
ISSN
0008-1221
DOI
10.15779/Z38GH9B95P
Abstract
Once, over lunch, I recall a law professor reflecting on scholarly work’s ephemeral nature. Legal academics, he thought, should consider themselves lucky if their articles sparked a discussion that lasted for even a few years. By that standard, Professor Stephen Sugarman’s seminal work on school finance reform, done in collaboration with John Coons and William Clune, must count as a Methuselah of academic concepts. Decades later, this research continues to prompt scholarly debate, legal advocacy, and legislative reform. In this essay, I first describe the origins of the theory of school finance reform. I then turn to the ongoing influence that this approach has had on how schools are funded. I close with some thoughts on the reasons for this idea’s tremendous staying power.
First Page
355
Last Page
368
Num Pages
14
Volume Number
109
Issue Number
2
Publisher
University of California Berkeley School of Law
Recommended Citation
Rachel F. Moran,
School Finance Reform and Professor Stephen D. Sugarman’s Lasting Legacy,
109
Cal. L. Rev.
355
(2021).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/1907