Joshua Feinzig writes and teaches primarily in civil procedure and administrative law. His scholarship examines the procedural design of decisionmaking across courts, agencies, and hybrid institutions, focusing on how adjudicative systems allocate authority, discipline discretion, and adapt to the challenges of scale and cross-jurisdictional reach. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Cornell Law Review, Yale Journal on Regulation, and Yale Law Journal Forum, 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, and has argued before the Ninth Circuit. He has also represented parties in class actions and multidistrict litigation, agency adjudications, 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 and received the Benjamin Scharps Prize for best third-year paper and the Marshall Jewell Prize for best second-year contribution to a specialized journal. 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.
