Noah Kazis

New York City Law Department, Legal Counsel Division

Noah Kazis is an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the New York City Law Department's Legal Counsel division. He graduated from Yale Law School and writes about local government law, land use, and transportation.

Noah Kazis's Articles

Election and Voting Law, Federalism, Local Government

Federalism: The Cure for What Ails Localism

January 8, 2019

The lines between national politics and state or local politics, always blurred and squiggled, continue to evaporate. Just look at the recent “blue wave” midterm elections, in which a fierce backlash to Donald Trump carried hundreds of Democrats into state and local offices. In Texas, for example, the wave transformed courts across the state and…