Bijal Shah

Boston College Law School

885 Centre Street

Newton, MA 02459-1163

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

23

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Scholarly Papers (23)

1.

Administrative Subordination

University of Chicago Law Review, Forthcoming, Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 609
Number of pages: 108 Posted: 29 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2024
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
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2.

LGBT Identity in Immigration

Columbia Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 45, 2013
Number of pages: 114 Posted: 17 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2022
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
Downloads 341 (190,694)

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Executive discretion, Human rights, Immigration, Citizenship, Sexual orientation, Gender identity, LGBT, Nationalism, Exceptionalism

3.

Executive (Agency) Administration

72 Stanford Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 107 Posted: 26 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2024
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
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President, Presidential Administration, Executive Agency, Independent Agency, Executive Branch, Administrative Law, Political Insulation, Arbitrary and Capricious, Chevron, Separation of Powers

4.

Congress's Agency Coordination

103 Minnesota Law Review 1961 (2019)
Number of pages: 134 Posted: 09 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2024
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
Downloads 252 (261,945)
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President, Congress, Agencies, Legislation, Positive Theory, Administrative Law, Agency Discretion, Separation of Powers, Article II

5.

Judicial Administration

UC Irvine Law Review (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 13 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2024
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
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administrative law, judicial review, Chevron, presidential administration, political science

6.

Toward A Critical Theory of Administrative Law

Yale Journal on Regulation, Notice & Comment, 2020
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 08 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2023
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
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administrative law, constitutional law, critical theory, critical race theory, separation of powers, adjudication, immigration, regulation

7.

Statute-Focused Presidential Administration

George Washington Law Review (invited contribution to the Annual Review of Administrative Law) Forthcoming
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 18 May 2022 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2023
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
Downloads 167 (385,154)
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Annual Review of Administrative Law, presidential administration, presidentialism, legislation, statute, statutory execution, unitary executive theory

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Uncovering Coordinated Interagency Adjudication

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 128, No. 3, p. 805, 2015
Number of pages: 101 Posted: 10 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2022
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
Downloads 163 (393,375)
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Administrative law, Executive oversight, Agencies, Coordination, Adjudication, Presidential power, White House

9.

The Attorney General’s Disruptive Immigration Power

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 102, No. 129, 2017
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 15 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2024
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
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administrative law, adjudication, immigration, executive power, Attorney General, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security

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Blood, Land, and Sex: Legal Pluralism in Eritrea

Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal, Vol. 7, No. 192, 2004
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 09 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2024
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
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Human rights, International law, Africa, Family law, Property, Post-colonial

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Gay American 'Deviance': Using International Comparative Analysis to Argue for a Free Speech and Establishment Clause Approach to Furthering Gay Marriage in the United States

Wisconsin International Law Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1, 2008
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 09 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2024
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
Downloads 114 (524,119)

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Gay rights, LGBT, First Amendment, Freedom of expression, Establishment Clause, Fourteenth Amendment, Comparative law, Anti-subordination, Post-colonial, Civil rights

12.

Deploying the Internal Separation of Powers Against Racial Tyranny

Northwestern University Law Review Online, Vol. 116 (2021)
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 02 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2024
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
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president, administrative law, race, separation of powers, tyranny, internal separation of powers, executive branch

13.

Civil Servant Alarm

94 Chicago-Kent Law Review 101 (2019 Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 13 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2024
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
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A Critical Analysis of Separation-of-Powers Functionalism

Ohio State Law Journal (Forthcoming), Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 08 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 13 Aug 2024
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
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Toward an Intra-Agency Separation of Powers

​92 N.Y.U. Law Review 101 (2017)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 25 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2024
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
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constitutional law, separation of powers, administrative law, bureaucracy, institutional design

16.

The President's Fourth Branch?

Fordham Law Review, Forthcoming, Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 608
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 27 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2023
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
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A Critical Take on Separation-of-Powers Formalism

Georgetown J. of L. & Pub. Pol. (forthcoming) (invited), Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 638
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 11 Dec 2024
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
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critical theory, administrative law, separation of powers, critical theory, critical legal studies, formalism, originalism, textualism, social change, structural constitutionalism, major questions doctrine

18.

Interagency Transfers of Adjudication Authority

Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 34, No. 279, 2017
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 04 May 2017 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2022
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
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administrative law, adjudication, jurisdiction, separation of powers, agencies, coordination, collaboration, congressional intent, nondelegation

19.

Acknowledging Values in Administration

Yale Journal on Regulation, Notice & Comment: https://www.yalejreg.com/nc/symposium-stiglitz-reasoning-state-03/, Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 602
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 27 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2023
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
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agencies, expertise, discretion, administration, reasoning, process, government, values

20.

Administrative Discretion in Criminal and Immigration Enforcement

Texas Law Review Online, Volume 103, 2024, Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 639
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 23 Dec 2024 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2025
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
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criminal administration, criminal law, administrative law, immigration, law enforcement, declination, prosecutorial discretion, DACA, Dreamers, internal separation of powers, administrative separation of powers, racial minorities

21.

Brand X Developments in the Ninth Circuit and Beyond

Immigration Law Advisor, Vol. 3, No. 9, 2009
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 17 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2024
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
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Immigration law, Judicial deference, Ninth Circuit, Criminal law

22.

The Spoils of Presidentialism for Congress and the Court

Yale Journal on Regulation, Notice & Comment (November 2022): https://www.yalejreg.com/nc/symposium-shane-democracy-chief-executive-13/, Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 599
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 20 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2023
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
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president, Congress, Supreme Court, constitutional entitlement, presidential administration, capture, gridlock, pluralism

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Expanding Presidential Influence on Agency Adjudication

The Regulatory Review 2021, https://www.theregreview.org/2021/07/23/shah-agency-adjudication/
Number of pages: 3 Posted: 20 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2024
Bijal Shah
Boston College Law School
Downloads 37 (963,257)

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president, adjudication, agency, political, insulation, procedure, due process