The Georgetown Project on State and Local Government Policy and Law (SALPAL) at Georgetown Law operated 2019-2024 under the direction of Professor Sheila Foster, Faculty Director, and Adjunct Professor Meryl Justin Chertoff, Executive Director, as a nonpartisan effort aimed at promoting the role of state and local governments as policymakers, experimenters in democracy, guarantors of civil rights, and active players within the U.S. federal system.

SALPAL successfully: (1) educated, mentored, and advised law school students interested in state and local government; (2) served as an incubator for professors and scholars across the field to collaborate on the SLoG Law Blog and convened various individuals across state and local governments and election overseers; and (3) produced and published research and scholarship written by staff and students that covered topics from COVID federalism, to emergency powers, to intrastate preemption. SALPAL had a great impact on students and externally. The project was sunsetted on June 30, 2024.

An archived version of the SALPAL website is available through the Wayback Machine.