Overview
Joshua Feinzig writes and teaches in civil procedure and administrative law, with a focus on how adjudication functions across courts and administrative agencies. His work examines complex and large-scale adjudicative systems—such as multidistrict litigation and the immigration courts—and the procedural forms and institutional arrangements used to manage volume, discretion, and authority. His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Cornell Law Review, Yale Journal on Regulation, and Yale Law Journal Forum, among other publications.
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 immigration and refugee policy.