Joel Michaels
@jmichaels.bsky.social
Fellow at Columbia Law School. Writing/working on public finance, financial regulation, and administrative democracy. Previously at Treasury, OMB-OIRA. https://www.law.columbia.edu/faculty/joel-michaels
Excited to share my new article on appropriations law and executive power, out next year in the Harvard Law Review. The latest draft is linked below. Comments are very welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (Forgive the duplicate post; I'm a late bluesky adopter.)
This paper is titled with apologies to @joshchafetz.bsky.social's amazing work on the end of the legislative veto and corresponding loss of Congressional capacity. It's Chadha all the way down... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The <i>Chadha </i>Presidency
<p><span>Where is Congress? Why hasn’t it reined in some of the worst abuses of the Trump Administration? This Article argues that a significant part of the ans
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Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · last wk.Excited to read this new paper by @jmichaels.bsky.social! I already love the title! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
@jmicheals.bsky.social with an wonderful analysis in the budget/apportionment space driven by a crabbed Supreme Court jurisprudence within the separation of powers. We need a more robust “shared powers” jurisprudence.
Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · last wk.Excited to read this new paper by @jmichaels.bsky.social! I already love the title! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The first big recommendation on the "Beau & Tell" Scholarship Roundup had to be @jmichaels.bsky.social's killer new piece :)
Beau & Tell Scholarship Roundup 10/9/26
Congressional power, administrative institutions, legal history, constitutional theory, Law and Political Economy, and comparative constitutionalism.
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Excited to read this new paper by @jmichaels.bsky.social! I already love the title! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Bowsher Presidency
<div> The power of the purse is the principal source of Congress’s political l<span>everage over the executive branch. Yet in recent years, presidents have&nbs
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com President Trump’s new tariffs are illegal, Lev Menand and Joel Michaels write. “They are just another attempt by the president to ignore the law and dare the courts to stop him.”
Opinion | Trump’s New Tariffs Are Illegal Too
Just another attempt to ignore the law and dare the courts to step in.
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