David Freeman Engstrom, Stanford University

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Professor Stanford, California dfengstrom@law.stanford.edu Office: (650) 721-5859

Bio/Research

David Freeman Engstrom’s teaching and writing focus on the institutional design of litigation and regulatory regimes, as well as topics in administrative law, civil procedure, constitutional law, civil rights, and law and education. His award-winning scholarship has appeared in Stanford Law Revi...

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Bio/Research

David Freeman Engstrom’s teaching and writing focus on the institutional design of litigation and regulatory regimes, as well as topics in administrative law, civil procedure, constitutional law, civil rights, and law and education. His award-winning scholarship has appeared in Stanford Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and Columbia Law Review, among others, and has been cited in dozens of federal and state court decisions and litigation briefs. His expert commentary has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, The National Law Journal, CNN, and MSNBC. He has served as counsel or consultant to a range of entities, including law firms, major corporations, and a leading litigation finance company. Recent scholarly projects include the first large-scale empirical investigation of qui tam litigation under the False Claims Act. Current projects include a book charting the institutional evolution of American job discrimination laws, an empirical analysis of agency use of “guidance” documents, and a study of the political economy of American civil procedure rulemaking. Professor Engstrom is an elected member of the American Law Institute and also currently serves on the Model Adjudication Rules Working Group of the Administrative Conference of the United States.

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