Brian D. Feinstein

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

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1.

The Impact of Cryptocurrency Regulation on Trading Markets

Journal of Financial Regulation, 7(1): 48-99
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 13 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 07 Jan 2022
Brian D. Feinstein and Kevin Werbach
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department
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cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency trading, regulation, bitcoin, capital flight, digital assets, securities regulation

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The Dynasty Advantage: Family Ties in Congressional Elections

Legislative Studies Quarterly, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 571-98, November 2010
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 12 Oct 2010
Brian D. Feinstein
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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dynasties, political dynasties, dynastic candidates, dynastic politicians, political families, political elites, elections, political selection, Congress, legislatures, candidates, open seat, campaigns, name recognition, family ties, intergenerational transfers, brand name, label, goodwill

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Submerged Independent Agencies

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Forthcoming, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 794, C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State Research Paper No. 22-04, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 953, The Wharton School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 09 Feb 2022 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2024
Brian D. Feinstein and Jennifer Nou
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Chicago - Law School
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agency delegations, subdelegations, independent agencies, agency personnel, civil servants, unitary executive, internal separation of powers

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Congress in the Administrative State

95 Washington University Law Review 1189 (2018), University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 803, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 621
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 31 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 16 May 2018
Brian D. Feinstein
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Legitimizing Agencies

University of Chicago Law Review, Forthcoming, The Wharton School Research Paper
Number of pages: 101 Posted: 31 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2024
Brian D. Feinstein
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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administrative agencies, independent agencies, civil servants, notice and comment, presidential administration

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Board Diversity Matters: An Empirical Assessment of Community Reinvestment at Federal Reserve-Regulated Banks

Yale Program on Financial Stability Working Paper Forthcoming, The Wharton School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 05 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2024
Brian D. Feinstein, Peter Conti-Brown and Kaleb Nygaard
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Yale University - Yale Program on Financial Stability
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Federal Reserve, Community Reinvestment Act, corporate board diversity, mortgage lending, banking, financial institutions

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Designing Executive Agencies for Congressional Influence

Administrative Law Review, Vol. 69, No. 2, pp. 259-89 (2017), University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 778, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 595
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2021
Brian D. Feinstein
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Agency Design, Independent Agencies, Administrative Law, Committee Jurisdiction, Oversight, Hearings, Administrative Agencies, The Administrative State

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The Contingent Origins of Financial Legislation

Washington University Law Review, Vol. 99, pp. 145-222
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 15 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2021
Peter Conti-Brown and Brian D. Feinstein
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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financial legislation, legal history, agency design, antinovelty doctrine

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Divided Agencies

Southern California Law Review, Forthcoming, C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State Research Paper No. 21-40, USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS21-47, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 21-47, The Wharton School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2022
Brian D. Feinstein and Abby K. Wood
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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administrative agencies, polarization, regulation, administrative law, civil service

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Outside Advisers Inside Agencies

Georgetown Law Journal, Issue 108, No. 5, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 885, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 721
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 31 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2024
Brian D. Feinstein and Daniel J. Hemel
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and New York University School of Law
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advisory committees, public administration, administrative agencies, principal-agent

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Congress Is an It: A New View of Legislative History

Emory Law Journal, Vol. 73, 2024
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 01 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2024
Brian D. Feinstein
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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statutory interpretation, legislative history, Congress, congressional history, textualism, purposivism, lawmaking, legislative procedure, congressional procedure, legislative process

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Community Benefits Agreements with Transit Agencies

Transportation Law Journal, Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 85-113, Summer 2011
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 26 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2019
Brian D. Feinstein and Ashley Allen
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Harvard University - Law School - Alumni
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eminent domain, gentrification, public transit, transportation, community benefits agreements

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Judging Judicial Foreclosure

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 812, Kreisman Working Papers Series in Housing Law and Policy No. 43
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 23 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2018
Brian D. Feinstein
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Partisan Balance With Bite

118 Columbia Law Review 9 (2018), University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 824, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 649
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 14 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 03 Feb 2018
Brian D. Feinstein and Daniel J. Hemel
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and New York University School of Law
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Partisan Balance Requirements, Administrative Law, Independent Agencies, Partisan Sort, Ideological Polarization

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Disappearing Commissioners

Iowa Law Review, 109, The Wharton School Research Paper
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 27 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2024
Brian D. Feinstein and David T. Zaring
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania - Legal Studies Department
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regulatory commissions, independent agencies, commissioners, administrative agencies, administrative state

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Identity-Conscious Administrative Law: Lessons from Financial Regulators

George Washington Law Review, Vol. 90, No. 1, The Wharton School Research Paper
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 23 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2022
Brian D. Feinstein
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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agency design, administrative law, substantive equality, financial regulation

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Congress's Commissioners: Former Hill Staffers at the SEC and Other Independent Regulatory Commissions

Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 38, pp. 175-245, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 875, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper No. 703
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 11 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2025
Brian D. Feinstein and M. Todd Henderson
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Chicago - Law School
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Independent Regulatory Commissions, Appointments, Executive Appointments, Congress

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Presidential Administration and the Accountability Illusion

74 Duke Law Journal (forthcoming 2025), U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper, The Wharton School Research Paper
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 24 May 2024
Brian D. Feinstein
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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accountability, presidential administration, unitary executive, administrative agencies, independent agencies, civil servants, empirical legal studies, empirical administrative law

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Avoiding Oversight: Legislator Preferences & Congressional Monitoring of the Administrative State

Journal of Law, Economics and Policy, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2011
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 01 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2021
Brian D. Feinstein
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Congress, oversight, congressional administration, separation of powers, administrative law

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Banking on a Curve: How to Restore the Community Reinvestment Act

Harvard Business Law Review, 13: 335-391, The Wharton School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 30 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2024
Peter Conti-Brown and Brian D. Feinstein
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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bank supervision, financial regulation, inequality, bank examination, community reinvestment

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Political Transitions & Firm Behavior in Highly Regulated Sectors: The Case of U.S. Mortgage Lending

University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 882, U of Chicago, Public Law Working Paper
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 17 May 2019 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2023
Brian D. Feinstein, Chen Meng and Manisha Padi
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, Technology & Policy Research Initiative, Boston University and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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political economy, law and economics, mortgage, household finance, political uncertainty, political business cycle, federalism, state law, mortgage lending, consumer protection, consumer law, empirical legal studies, mortgage finance, attorney general, financial regulation

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The Market Value of Partisan Balance

Northwestern University Law Review, vol. 119, pp. 1201-1271 (2025)
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 07 Aug 2024 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2025
Brian D. Feinstein and Daniel J. Hemel
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and New York University School of Law
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corporate law, partisan balance, securities event study, market for corporate law, Delaware, Delaware effect, Delaware way

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In-Group Favoritism as Legal Strategy: Evidence from FCPA Settlements

American Business Law Journal, Vol. 60, 5-59
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 28 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2023
Brian D. Feinstein, William R. Heaston and Guilherme Siqueira de Carvalho
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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FCPA, foreign corrupt practices, affective polarization, in-group favoritism, public integrity, revolving door, political sorting, corporate crime, settlements

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Congressional Government Rebooted: Randomized Committee Assignments & Legislative Capacity

Harvard Law & Policy Review, vol. 7, pp. 601-634, 2013
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 28 May 2012 Last Revised: 06 Jan 2015
Brian D. Feinstein
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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institutional design, separation of powers, committees, Congress, statutory interpretation, legislative history, legislative intent, soft law

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Strategic Subdelegation

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, vol. 20, no. 4, The Wharton School Research Paper, University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 994
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 23 Oct 2023 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2024
Brian D. Feinstein and Jennifer Nou
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Chicago - Law School
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delegation, subdelegation, civil servants, civil service, appointees, agencies, administrative agencies, administrative state, administrative law, burrowing

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Platforms and Partners: The Civil Rights Realignment Reconsidered

Studies in American Political Development, Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 1-31, Spring 2008
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 07 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2014
Brian D. Feinstein and Eric Schickler
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of California, Berkeley
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realignment, partisan realignment, civil rights, parties, political parties, platforms, issue evolution

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Twitter and the Federal Reserve

Brookings Center on Regulation & Markets Working Paper
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Feb 2021
Peter Conti-Brown and Brian D. Feinstein
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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social media, Federal Reserve, central banks, Twitter, government communications

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Congressional Parties and Civil Rights Politics from 1933 to 1972

The Journal of Politics, Vol. 72, No. 3, pp. 672-89, July 2010
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 06 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2014
Eric Schickler, Kathryn Pearson and Brian D. Feinstein
University of California, Berkeley, University of Minnesota - Minneapolis and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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realignment, partisan realignments, civil rights, political coalitions, Congress, roll call votes, discharge petitions

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Who Conducts Oversight? Bill-Writers, Lifers, and Nail-Biters

University of Chicago Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 845, Wayne Law Review, Vol. 64, pp. 127-148 (2018 Symposium)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 21 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2021
Brian D. Feinstein
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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Congress, oversight, committees, committee chairs

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Brief of Amici Curiae Professors Brian D. Feinstein and Daniel J. Hemel in Support of Petitioner, Carney v. Adams

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 24 Feb 2020
Brian D. Feinstein and Daniel J. Hemel
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and New York University School of Law
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partisan balance requirements, amicus brief, Supreme Court, Delaware, Carney v. Adams, state courts

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Pershing's Expedition: Bill Ackman, Herbalife, and the Ethics of Political Influence

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 30 Jan 2025 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2025
Brian D. Feinstein
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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business ethics, lobbying, nonmarket strategy, multilevel marketing

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Online Appendix: The Impact of Cryptocurrency Regulation on Trading Markets

Posted: 12 Apr 2021
Brian D. Feinstein and Kevin Werbach
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School, Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department

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cryptocurrencies, cryptocurrency trading, regulation, bitcoin, capital flight, digital assets, securities regulation