Evan Zoldan

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

John W. Stoepler Professor of Law and Values and Director of the legal institute of the great lakes

Office: LC 2007E
Campus Phone: 419.530.2864
Email: Evan.Zoldan@utoledo.edu

Evan C. Zoldan researches legislation, administrative law, and state and local government issues. His work on legislation questions whether Congress and state legislatures may target named individuals for special treatment. His article on targeted legislation, The Equal Protection Component of Legislative Generality, was selected for presentation at the Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum to represent the category of Constitutional Law: Theoretical Foundations. His work has been cited by both federal and state courts and in briefs, treatises, and scholarly works. Professor Zoldan has appeared in the national media, including the Washington Post, CNN, and Bloomberg Law. Professor Zoldan is a past chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Legislation and Law of the Political Process.

Professor Zoldan also serves as the Director of the College of Law’s Legal Institute of the Great Lakes, a multi-disciplinary research center that supports research, maintains publications, and sponsors conferences on legal, economic, and social issues of importance to the Great Lakes region. Professor Zoldan received his law degree, cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, where he served as Notes & Articles Editor of Georgetown’s Law & Policy in International Business journal. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from New York University, where he studied political philosophy. After law school, Professor Zoldan served as law clerk to judges on the United States Court of Federal Claims and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. Before joining the faculty of Toledo Law, he worked as an associate for Kirkland & Ellis LLP and as a trial attorney for the United States Department of Justice.

Professor Zoldan’s SSRN Page

Courses Taught

Administrative Law
Civil Procedure
Health Care Fraud and Abuse Litigation
Individual Rights in the Original Constitution: The Forgotten Bill of Rights
Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibiltiy
Legislation

Casebook

State and Local Government in Federal System (9th ed. 2020) (with Mandelker, Wegner et al)

Publications

Using Interpretive Tools to Measure Judicial Ideology, - Ind. L. J. (forthcoming 2025).

Issues, 65 William & Mary L. Rev. 1005 (2024).

Of Lumpers, Splitters, and Private Nondelegation, 110 Iowa Law Rev. Online 81 (2024).

The Major Questions Doctrine in the States, 101 Wash. U. Law Rev. 359 (2023).

The Strength of American Dynasty, 54 U. Tol. Law Rev. 355 (2023).

Due Process and The Right to an Individualized Hearing, 13 U.C. Irvine Law Rev. 1399 (2023).

The Conversation Canon, Kentucky Law J. (2022).

Canon Spotting, 59 Hous. L. Rev. 621 (2022).

Delegation to Nonexperts, 169 U. Pa. L. Rev. Online 100 (2020).

The Vanishing Core of Judicial Independence, 21 Nev. L. J. 531 (2021).

Corpus Linguistics and the Dream of Objectivity, 50 Seton Hall L. Rev. 401 (2019).

Legislative Design and the Controllable Costs of Special Legislation, 78 Md. L. Rev. 415 (2019).

Is the Federal Judiciary Independent of Congress?, 70 Stan. L. Rev. Online 135 (2018).

The Klein Rule of Decision Puzzle and the Self-Dealing Solution, 74 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 2133 (2017).

The Equal Protection Component of Legislative Generality, 51 Richmond L. Rev. 489 (2017).

Bank Markazi and the Undervaluation of Legislative Generality, Yale L. & Pol’y Rev. Inter Alia (9/7/2016).

The Civil Ex Post Facto Clause, 2015 Wisc. L. Rev. 727 (2015).

Congressional Dysfunction, Public Opinion, and the Battle Over the Keystone XL Pipeline, 47 Loyola U. Chicago L. J. 617 (2015).

Reviving Legislative Generality, 98 Marquette L. Rev. 625 (2014).

Targeted Judicial Activism,16 Green Bag 2d 465 (2013).

The Permanent Seat of Government: An Unintended Consequence of Heightened Scrutiny Under the Contract Clause, 14 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol’y 163 (2011).

All Roar and No Bite: Lion Raisins and the Federal Circuit’s First Swipe at the NAFI Doctrine, 36 Pub. Con. L. J. 153 (2007).

The King is Dead, Long Live the King!: Sovereign Immunity and the Curious Case of Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities, 38 Conn. L. Rev. 455 (2006).

Strangers in a Strange Land: Domestic Subsidiaries of Foreign Corporations and the Ban on Political Contributions from Foreign Sources, 34 Law & Pol’y Int’l Bus. 573 (2003).