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Oren Tamir

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Associate professor of law @ university of Arizona college of law https://law.arizona.edu/person/oren-tamir

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Oren Tamir @orentaoren.bsky.social · 19d

If you’re around Dublin this Monday, please join us!

Oren Tamir @orentaoren.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks to Rodger Citron for this enlightening discussion of how he and his colleagues wrote their new “Learning Administrative Law” book drawing on @shalevroisman.bsky.social and mine piece “Pictures of A Revolution” verdict.justia.com/2025/09/08/h...

How We Wrote About the Administrative Law Revolution While It Was (and Still Is) Occurring

Touro University, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center professor Rodger Citron discusses the evolving state of administrative law in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023–24 term, which significantly curtai...

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Oren Tamir @orentaoren.bsky.social · Sep 5

about amending the U.S. Constitution (including by an Article V Convention). It was a lot of fun! Thanks Professor Ndimurwimo for your time and insights!

Oren Tamir @orentaoren.bsky.social · Sep 5

My Con Law II class hosted yesterday Professor Leah Ndimurwimo from Mandela U in South Africa & a Fulbright visitor at @uarizonalaw.bsky.social. We talked about the post-apartheid constitution-making process there, considering its own complexities as well as how it might inform ideas...

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Oren Tamir @orentaoren.bsky.social · Sep 2

Call for papers for the best constitutional law conference every year is now out! Please circulate widely & consider sending us your paper/lightning round proposals. Tucson is incredible this time of the year, and we have amazing confirmed commentators already lined up 🌵🌵

Oren Tamir @orentaoren.bsky.social · Sep 2

Call for papers for the best constitutional law conference every year is now out! Please circulate widely & consider sending us your paper/lightning round proposals. Tucson is incredible this time of the year, and we have amazing confirmed commentators already lined up 🌵🌵

Oren Tamir @orentaoren.bsky.social · Aug 17

Hope that's helpful to some!

Oren Tamir @orentaoren.bsky.social · Aug 17

including the debate between managerialism & judicialization of the administrative process, the importance of adjudicator neutrality, & the role of judicial review of adjudication. The movie is available through Kanopy & all research universities, I believe, have a subscription.

Oren Tamir @orentaoren.bsky.social · Aug 17

students immediately get how important the issue is--and when coupled with some of the studies on the "refugee roulette" that were at the time so prominent (scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1902/) we continue to cover many of the other important issues related to administrative adjudication,

"Refugee Roulette: Disparities in Asylum Adjudication" by Andrew I. Schoenholtz, Jaya Ramji-Nogales et al.

This study analyzes databases of merits decisions from all four levels of the asylum adjudication process: 133,000 decisions by 884 asylum officers over a seven year period; 140,000 decisions of 225 i...

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Oren Tamir @orentaoren.bsky.social · Aug 17

and which I think was really successful: I assign students to watch the documentary Well Founded Fear from 2000. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-Foun…. It is an arresting depiction of the process by which applications for asylum in the U.S. are determined. By watching the movie,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-Foun…

Oren Tamir @orentaoren.bsky.social · Aug 17

Tip for ad law teachers, especially junior like me: I assume many are potentially struggling with how to teach the subject of "non-APA adjudications" in a way that helps students see the major stakes of the issue. Here's what I've done last year, following Nick Parrillo

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Todd Phillips @tphillips.bsky.social · Jul 11

🚨@nicholasbednar.bsky.social and I have a new article titled Commission Quorums.

In light of firings rendering the NLRB and MSPB quorum-less, we review caselaw, common law principles, and the quorum rules of 76 commissions to understand the law of quorums. 1/

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Shalev Gad Roisman @shalevroisman.bsky.social · Jul 2

I just published a blog post on the terrific Yale JREG Blog that draws an interesting--and potentially important--connection between Congress's power to "appropriate" and the three "Vesting" clauses in the Constitution.

www.yalejreg.com/nc/vesting-v...

“Vesting” v. “Appropriating” in the Constitution, by Shalev Gad Roisman - Yale Journal on Regulation

This blog post draws an unlikely—but potentially quite important—connection between Congress’s power to “appropriate” and the three “vesting” clauses of the Constitution. It is an axiom of separation ...

www.yalejreg.com

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Oren Tamir @orentaoren.bsky.social · Jun 8

The Comparative Administrative Law listserv published this week its first "What's New in the Comparative Administrative Law World?" Newsletter--featuring 25 pieces of scholarship and 2 events!

Oren Tamir @orentaoren.bsky.social · Jun 8

And if you want to register to the listserv, please use this link: mailman.yale.edu/mailman/list...

Comp-Admin-Law Info Page

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Oren Tamir @orentaoren.bsky.social · Jun 8

If you want your work or event to be featured in the next edition of the Newsletter, please reach out to the editor of the newsletter, Eduardo Jordao at: [email protected].

Oren Tamir @orentaoren.bsky.social · Jun 8

The Comparative Administrative Law listserv published this week its first "What's New in the Comparative Administrative Law World?" Newsletter--featuring 25 pieces of scholarship and 2 events!

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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · Jun 4

Wan on the Constitutionalization of Happiness, buff.ly/fyKwk1R - Trevor Wan (The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Law) has posted Constitutionalization of Happiness: A Global and Comparative Inquiry on SSRN.

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Lawrence Solum @lsolum.bsky.social · Jun 2

Roismann & Tamir on Administrative Law Teaching Materials, buff.ly/AuhHlOM - halev Gad Roisman (University of Arizona Law) & Oren Tamir (University of Arizona Law) have posted Pictures of a Revolution: Administrative Law in a Time of Change (123 Michigan Law Review 1105 (2025)( in SSRN.

Oren Tamir @orentaoren.bsky.social · May 29

Read Rafi’s paper! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Bridget Dooling @bridgetdooling.bsky.social · May 29

@mollyereynolds.bsky.social with a What Just Happened?! CRA deep in the weeds explainer over at the Yale JREG blog 🤩: www.yalejreg.com/nc/the-senat...

The Senate’s Recent Actions on the Congressional Review Act, by Molly Reynolds - Yale Journal on Regulation

On Wednesday, May 21, the U.S. Senate took a series of procedural votes that, depending on who you ask, either “cross[ed] a point of no return” in terms of the chamber’s filibuster or “preserv[ed] the...

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Oren Tamir @orentaoren.bsky.social · May 16

Link to the full piece here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Oren Tamir @orentaoren.bsky.social · May 7

This is tomorrow--please join if you can. Link to receive Zoom access ⬇️

Yseult Marique @ymarique.bsky.social · Apr 14

📚 Online Book Launch: Comparative Administrative Law: An Introduction (EE 2025) - 8 May, 3-4:30 CET

💬 Speakers: G Napolitano & L Parona, (Roma Tre); M Eliantonio (Maastricht); TTW Wan (Hong Kong) and O Tamir (Arizona).

➡️ registration ⤵️

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Online Book Launch: Comparative Administrative Law: An Introduction (Edward Elgar 2025), by Giulio Napolitano and Leonardo Parona – 8th May, 15:00-16:30 CET

The Yale Comparative Administrative Law ListServ is proud to host a series of online discussions on comparative administrative law around the world! These online discussions seek to provi…

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Oren Tamir @orentaoren.bsky.social · Apr 30

🚨🚨🚨New & exciting changes are about to be announced in the next few days in the Yale Comparative Administrative Law listserv... If you're already a member--stay tuned; if you're interested in joining, link to register ⬇️
@ymarique.bsky.social

Oren Tamir @orentaoren.bsky.social · Jan 18

Interested in comparative admin law? We're in the midst of revamping the operation of the Comparative-Administrative-Law Listserv. Some important notes are coming soon. If you have an interest, do consider registering to catch the latest: shorturl.at/Juq82

Comp-admin-law Info Page

Oren Tamir @orentaoren.bsky.social · Apr 30

First year of full-time law teaching -- ✅
Wow, it was fun but also challenging tackling both con law and ad law this year!
I stole my coauthor's final slide for his con law class for my own con law class that wrapped up today...