Jennifer Selin
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SDOC 111 E. Taylor Street Room 454 Phoenix, AZ 85004
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Mail code: 9520Campus: Dtphx
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Jennifer L. Selin is an associate professor at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. Her published and ongoing scholarship explores legal institutions and how they work. Using both legal analysis and empirical tools, she demonstrates the structure of the administrative decision-making environment has important consequences for policy implementation.
Prior to joining ASU in 2024, Professor Selin served as senior attorney advisor at the Administrative Conference of the United States. Before working in the federal executive branch, she was a professor at the Universities of Illinois and Missouri.
Selin's scholarship has been published in political science, public administration, and law journals and has been utilized by the Obama, Trump and Biden Administrations, Congress, the Supreme Court, and the media. A proud graduate of Lebanon Valley College, Selin holds a J.D. from Wake Forest University and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. Before first joining academia, she practiced administrative law and specialized in federal electricity market regulation and alternative energy development, licensing and regulation.
- Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
- J.D., Wake Forest University School of Law
- M.A., Vanderbilt University
- B.A., Lebanon Valley College
Books:
Sourcebook of United States Executive Agencies (2nd ed. 2018; 1st ed. 2012) (with David E. Lewis).
Articles:
Constraining the Executive Branch: Congressional Use of the Courts in the Administrative State, 119 Nw. U. L. Rev. (forthcoming) (with Pamela J. Clouser McCann).
How Free is Information? Transparency in State Government, 26 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol’y (forthcoming) (with Jordan M. Butcher).
The Importance of Removal Restrictions in a Schedule F World, 13 Reg. Rev. In Depth 1 (2024) (with Paul R. Verkuil).
Keeping Tabs on the Executive, 53 Pres. Stud. Q. 186 (2023) (with Grace Moore).
Anticipated Adjudication: An Analysis of the Judicialization of Agency Staffing, 32 J. Pub. Admin. Rsch. & Theory 610 (2022) (with Scott Limbocker & William G. Resh).
Under Pressure: Centralizing Regulation in Response to Presidential Directives, 52 Pres. Stud. Q. 340 (2022) (with Cody Drolc, Jordan Butcher, Nicholas Brothers & Hanna Brant).
The Politicization Conversation: A Call to Better Define and Measure the Concept, 53 Pres. Stud. Q. 10 (2022) (with Scott Limbocker & Mark D. Richardson).
The Headless Fourth Branch: Rethinking the Assumptions of Administrative Jurisprudence, 4 Persp. Pub. Mgmt. & Gov. 170 (2021).
“If Men Were Angels”: The Legal Dynamics of Overseeing the Presidency, 51 Pres. Stud. Q. 426 (2021) (with Caylie Milazzo).
The Best Laid Plans: How Administrative Burden Complicates Voting Rights Restoration Law and Policy, 84 Mo. L. Rev. 999 (2019).
Don’t Sweat the Details!: Enhancing Congressional Committee Capacity Through the Use of Detailees, 42 Legis. Stud. Q. 611 (2017) (with Russell W. Mills).
Understanding Employee Turnover in the Public Sector: Insights from Research on Teacher Mobility, 76 Pub. Admin. Rev. 241 (2016) (with Jason A. Grissom & Samantha L. Viano).
What Makes an Agency Independent?, 59 Am. J. Pol. Sci. 971 (2015).
Political Control and the Forms of Agency Independence, 83 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1487 (2014-2015) (with David E. Lewis).
Influencing the Bureaucracy: The Irony of Congressional Oversight, 58 Am. J. Pol. Sci. 387 (2014) (with Joshua D. Clinton & David E. Lewis).
The House as a Stepping Stone to the Senate: Why Do So Few African-American House Members Run?, 56 Am. J. Pol. Sci. 387 (2012) (with Gbemende Johnson & Bruce I. Oppenheimer).
Government Reports:
Participation of Senate-Confirmed Officials in Administrative Adjudication (June 13, 2024) (report to the Admin. Conf. of the U.S.) (with Matthew A. Gluth & Jeremy S. Graboyes).
Improving Timeliness in Agency Adjudication (Dec. 11, 2023) (report to the Admin. Conf. of the U.S.) (with Jeremy S. Graboyes).
Book Chapters:
Political Control of Regulatory Authorities, in Handbook of Regulatory Authorities 193 (Fabrizio Di Mascio, Martino Maggetti & Alessandro Natalini eds., Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022).
The Hollowed State: Managing Trump’s State Department, in Contemporary Cases in U.S. Foreign Policy 99 (Ralph G. Carter, ed., Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).
The Future of Election Administration: How Will States Respond?, in U.S. Election Analysis 2020: Media, Voters and the Campaign 115 (Daniel Jackson et al. eds., Bournemouth University, 2020).
Book Reviews:
Book Review: Law & Leviathan: Redeeming the Administrative State by C. Sunstein and A. Vermuele, 52 Am. Rev. Pub. Admin. 248 (2022).
Book Review: Strategies for Governing: Reinventing Public Administration for a Dangerous Century, 18 Persp. on Pol. 1006 (2020).
Book Review: Presidential Leverage: Presidents, Approval, and the American State, 16 Persp. on Pol. 842 (2018).
Book Review: Agenda Crossover: The Influence of State Delegations in Congress, 133 Pol. Sci. Q. 590 (2018).
Book Review: Above Politics: Bureaucratic Discretion and Credible Commitment, 47 Am. Rev. Pub. Admin. 496 (2017).
Other Academic Publications:
Improving Timeliness in Agency Adjudication, Reg. Rev. (July 4, 2024) (with Jeremy S. Graboyes & Lea Robbins).
Modernizing Regulatory Review: Perspectives from ACUS, Yale J. on Reg.: Notice & Comment (May 30, 2023) (with Jeremy S. Graboyes).
Reconsidering Agencies as Active Participants in Theories of Political Control, Yale J. on Reg.: Notice & Comment (Nov. 1, 2021).
Is the Administrative State Legitimate?, Starting Points (Oct. 30, 2017) (with Joseph Postell).
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| LAW 522 | Constitutional Law |
| LAW 735 | Teaching Assistant |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| LAW 609 | Administrative Law |