Overview
Joshua Feinzig writes about the changing forms and functions of adjudication in courts and administrative agencies. He studies how legal frameworks allocate authority within complex adjudicative systems—such as immigration adjudication and multidistrict litigation—and how procedural rules mediate relationships between overlapping legal regimes. His scholarship has appeared in the Yale Journal on Regulation, the Yale Law Journal Forum, and the Yale Journal of International Law Online, among others.
Before joining Duke, Feinzig clerked for Judge Diane P. Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and practiced appellate litigation at WilmerHale. He has authored briefs in most federal courts of appeals and in the U.S. Supreme Court on a range of regulatory and constitutional questions, and has argued before the Ninth Circuit. He has also represented parties in agency adjudications, class actions and multidistrict proceedings, and cross-border disputes.
Feinzig earned a J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, and a B.A. summa cum laude from Yale University. In law school, he served as Executive Notes Editor of the Yale Law Journal, received the Benjamin Scharps Prize for best third-year paper and the Marshall Jewell Prize for best second-year contribution to a specialized journal, and interned with the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. Before law school, he conducted fieldwork in immigration detention centers and prisons abroad, and spent a year working within Taiwan’s Ministry of the Interior on transpacific migration regulation and reform.