The recent debates on Kelo has brought up federalism, which also relates to or implies the right to secede. So, here are several recent papers related to secession added to my site today (not all libertarian):
- McGee, Robert W., The Theory of Secession and Emerging Democracies: A Constitutional Solution (1992)
- Wellman, Christopher H., A Defense of Secession and Political Self-Determination
- Briffault, Richard, Voting Rights, Home Rule, And Metropolitan Governance: The Secession Of Staten Island As A Case Study In The Dilemmas Of Local Self-Determination
- Eastwood, Jr., Lawrence S., Secession: State Practice And International Law After The Dissolution Of The Soviet Union And Yugoslavia
- Islam, M. Rafiqul, Secession Crisis in Papua New Guinea: The Proclaimed Republic of Bougainville in International Law marchildon_quebec-secession.pdf
- Marchildon, Gregory & Edward Maxwell, Quebec’s Right Of Secession Under Canadian And International Law
- Sneesby, Kevin, National Separation-Canada in Context--A Legal Perspective
- Sunstein, Cass, Constitutionalism and Secession (Approaching Democracy: A New Legal Order for Eastern Europe) (1991)
- The Right To National Self-Determination: The Faroe Islands and Greenland, Edited by Sjúrður Skaale
- And then, of course, there is the infamous 1869 decision Texas v. White, where the US Supreme Court decreed that the union of the states was “perpetual” and “indissoluble”--therefore, the Court “reasoned,” the confederate states could not and did not secede.
