Prof, @Wharton Legal Studies. Scholar of how state power is apportioned & exercised.
Joined July 2016
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Brian D. Feinstein retweeted
May 20
Penn, let's do this.
May 20
NEW: Harvard faculty voted to impose a roughly 20 percent cap on A grades beginning fall 2027, approving the College’s most aggressive attempt to reverse grade inflation and reshape academic standards.
@abbysgerstein and @amannmahajan report.
thecrimson.com/article/2026/…
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Brian D. Feinstein retweeted
May 15
In this article, I argue that the two tools in vogue to rein in the administrative state - backwards looking and humanities oriented originalism and future projecting and social sciencey cost benefit analysis - are hard to square with one another. Out in the Duke LJ, link next.
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Brian D. Feinstein retweeted
Apr 10
Wharton is hosting its annual financial regulation conference and unsurprisingly there’s a lot of stuff at the edge of banking. Private credit, systemic risk transfers, fintechs, ‘40 Act companies. It’s a nonbank world out there these days.
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Nice @whartonknows article on my research w/ @DanielJHemel on the value investors place on Delaware's politically balanced courts.
Implications for FTC, SEC, CFTC, & other regulatory commissions w/ vacant Dem seats? knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/…
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🚨Call for Papers: Wharton Financial Regulation Conference --
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Thanks to @danieltdeacon for his generous review of Dan Walters & my latest manuscript, "Valuing Administrative Democracy," on JREG's Notice & Comment blog.
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Brian D. Feinstein retweeted
6 Dec 2025
now on SSRN: 𝘝𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 (w/ Dan Walters) -
Experimental evidence indicates people want meaningful avenues for public input in agency decisions, even when those procedures add substantial time.
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8 Dec 2025
I enjoyed joining @akjennings on @busscholarship to chat about the govt's big benefits to small businesses - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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now on SSRN: 𝘝𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘈𝘥𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘺 (w/ Dan Walters) -
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4 Nov 2025
My comments to Bloomberg Law on the Trump admin's sharp cuts to advisory committees--
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Brian D. Feinstein retweeted
9 Oct 2025
Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses. Legal Theory Blog is at legaltheoryblog.com. The Legal Theory Lexicon is at legaltheorylexicon.com. Thanks in advance for you help.
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Brian D. Feinstein retweeted
11 Sep 2025
@YaleJREG kicks off an online symposium today on Peter Conti-Brown & @SeanVanatta's fascinating new book "Private Finance, Public Power," a deeply researched history of bank supervision that anyone interested in banking, state capacity, or Am. political development should read.
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11 Sep 2025
@YaleJREG kicks off an online symposium today on Peter Conti-Brown & @SeanVanatta's fascinating new book "Private Finance, Public Power," a deeply researched history of bank supervision that anyone interested in banking, state capacity, or Am. political development should read.
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This article discusses how #federallaw systematically privileges #smallbusinesses & argues that this regime of favoritism creates significant costs, while its supposed benefits are debatable.
Read: spkl.io/6019APwld
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ALT This image shows a figure titled New Small Business-Favoring Provisions Per Year.
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Brian D. Feinstein retweeted
14 Aug 2025
My Wharton colleague @BrianDFeinstein has posted a impt paper on federal legal and administrative bias favoring small firms -- a foundation of democracy? A costly subsidy? Or a certain killer of the view that large firms have unwarranted political power? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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