Brian D. Feinstein

Now on SSRN: How do White House policy councils shape the president's highest priority rules? What is their relationship to OIRA and regulatory review? Part of an effort to understand the rise of presidential power through the institutional presidency: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

thanks to @PrawfBainbridge for his thoughtful review of "The Market Value of Partisan Balance" @DanielJHemel

The 2025 Political Economy & Public Law conference covered #research on an array of topics- from disclosure rules to Congressional oversight committees to small business-favoring provisions to executive orders. Thank you to all who made this event such a success!

Wharton Financial Regulation Conference - April 25 Academics, financial policymakers, etc: email me to rsvp. It's gonna be🔥

My colleagues voted to grant me tenure. I'm grateful to countless mentors & friends @BrownUniversity @harvardgov @Harvard_Law @UChicagoLaw @Wharton (plus some anonymous letter-writers!) Tenure in academia is a privilege. I will strive to use it well.

I'm grateful for this recognition from @TheAALS Adlaw Section and humbled to be included among the group of past recipients.

🚨now on @ssrn- SCOTUS claims that increasing the President's power over agencies makes those agencies more accountable to the American people. A set of experiments reveals that regular people - the purported object of this claim - do not agree. 🧵

Thanks to the inimitable @lsolum for recommending "The Market Value of Partisan Balance" on Legal Theory Blog @DanielJHemel @NwULRev

Now in print @UChiLRev- the results of a survey experience to elicit ppl's views on what structures/processes contribute to agencies' perceived legitimacy. Tired: presidential influence over agencies Wired: empowering politically insulated experts papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Now in print! ilr.law.uiowa.edu/volume-109-iss… Commissioners across the administrative state are resigning earlier & earlier in their terms, which enervates these comm'ns.➡️Threats to the power & independence of regulatory agencies do not come solely from the political branches & courts.