Introduction / Peter J. Galie and Gerald Benjamin
Cleaning the constitution part I : institutions and rights / Peter J. Galie and Christopher Bopst
Cleaning the constitution part II : public policies / Peter J. Galie and Christopher Bopst
New york state's allegedly unified court system / Daniel L. Feldman and Marc C. Bloustein
These seats may not be saved : a fair and rule-bound legislative reapportionment process / Jeffrey Wice and Todd A. Breitbart
"Mixed messages" : the governor's message of necessity and the legislative process in New York / Peter J. Galie
"Mind the gap" : the promise and limits of home rule in New York / Richard Briffault
"Till debt do us part" : the opportunity for New York finance law to enter the twenty-first century / Kenneth Bond
"The gift that keeps on giving" : New York's approach to gifts and loans of public money and credit / Christopher Bopst
"Forever wild" : the treatment of conservation and the environment by the New York state constitution / Paul Bray
Gaming the constitution : why New York's constitutional gambling prohibition does not prohibit gambling / Gerald Benjamin
"All of nothing at all" : changing the constitution
the reform dilemma / Gerald Benjamin
Coda : should voters approve the 2017 ballot proposition calling for a constitutional convention in New York?