Recommended Sources of Compact Law and Information
For additional information on interstate compact law and interstate compacts generally, see Michael L. Buenger, Jeffrey B. Litwak, Richard L. Masters, & Michael H. McCabe, The Evolving Law and Use of Interstate Compacts 2d ed. (2016); Jeffrey B. Litwak, Interstate Compact Law: Cases and Materials v.2.0 (2014) (available electronically only at www.semaphorepress.com).
For historical context on intestate compacts, see Felix Frankfurter & James M. Landis, The Compact Clause of the Constitution—A Study in Interstate Adjustments, 34 Yale L.J. 685, 688 (1925).
For historical context on compacts and as applicable to transfer of supervision of individuals on probation and parole under the ICAOS, see generally Michael L. Buenger & Richard L. Masters, The Interstate Compact on Adult Offender Supervision: Using Old Tools to Solve New Problems, 9 Roger Williams U.L. Rev. 71 (2003).
See also the legal analysis concerning the contractual nature of ICAOS as interpreted and applied in Doe v. Pennsylvania Bd. of Prob. & Parole, 513 F.3d 95, 105 n.7 (3rd Cir. 2008) (analyzing the contractual nature of ICAOS and citing the foregoing article); James G. Gentry, The Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision: Parole and Probation Supervision Enters the Twenty-First Century, 32 McGeorge L. Rev. 533 passim (2001).
For a report on interstate compact agencies and good governance, see U.S. Gov’t Accountability Office, No. GAO-07-519, Interstate Compacts: An Overview of the Structure and Governance of Environment and Natural Resource Compacts (2007).