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UC DAvis LAW REVIEW ONLINE
Interstate Compacts and Interstate
Organizations as Mitigation Strategy
in an Age of Federal Contraction
Darien Shanske*
INTRODUCTION
This Article describes a tool that state governments can use to address
the ongoing weakening of federal institutions: interstate compacts. An
interstate compact is a way for states to coordinate laws, pool resources,
and hire experts to solve common problems.'
The federal government is withdrawing from responsibilities in many
areas where the states are traditionally active, such as health, science,
* Copyright © 2025 Darien Shanske. Many interlocutors contributed to this
proposal, including Ash Bhagwat and Carlton Larson. All opinions and mistakes are my
own.
1 The word compact is used broadly here to encompass all agreements between
states and their agencies, as well as the formation of organizations whose members are
states and their agencies. The National Center for Interstate Compacts has identified
270 interstate compacts but some of the examples below in this article are not included
in that list because they are not technically based on a compact. NCIC Database,
NATIONAL CTR. FOR INTERSTATE COMPACTS (last visited Apr. 18, 2025),
https://compacts.csg.org/database/ [https://perma.cc/SY9Y-ECW2].
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