Bio

David Freeman Engstrom is the LSVF Professor in Law and Co-Director of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession at Stanford Law School. He is a scholar of public law, complex organizations, and political economy whose research and teaching explore problems in litigation procedure, administrative law, artificial intelligence and the law, constitutional law, civil rights, and access to courts. He is a faculty affiliate at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, the Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab (RegLab), and CodeX: The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics. Engstrom currently serves as the Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law, High-Volume Civil Adjudication. He co-founded the Filing Fairness Project, a multi-state effort to modernize court filing systems and widen access to our courts. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was a litigator at a boutique D.C. law firm, where he represented clients before the U.S. Supreme Court and other courts and agencies, and clerked for Judge Diane P. Wood on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Academic Appointments

Administrative Appointments

  • Co-Director, Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession (2021 - Present)
  • Associate Dean, Stanford Law School (2018 - 2021)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

  • Public Member, Administrative Conference of the United States (2020 - Present)
  • Elected Member, American Law Institute (2017 - Present)
  • Fellow, American Bar Foundation (2016 - Present)
  • Member, California Bar (2017 - Present)
  • Member, Maryland Bar (2003 - Present)
  • Member, District of Columbia Bar (2006 - Present)

Professional Education

  • J.D., Stanford Law School (2002)
  • Ph.D., Yale University (political science) (2005)
  • M.Sc., Oxford University (1996)
  • A.B., Dartmouth College (1993)

Contact

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 8610

Links

2024-25 Courses

Stanford Advisees

All Publications

  • Legal Tech and the Litigation Playing Field LEGAL TECH AND THE FUTURE OF CIVIL JUSTICE Engstrom, D., Engstrom, N., Engstrom, D. F. 2023: 133-154

    View details for Web of Science ID 001003618200007

  • Civil Justice at the Crossroads Introduction LEGAL TECH AND THE FUTURE OF CIVIL JUSTICE Engstrom, D., Engstrom, D. F. 2023: 1-18

    View details for Web of Science ID 001003618200001

  • Disparate Limbo: How Administrative Law Erased Antidiscrimination YALE LAW JOURNAL Ceballos, C., Engstrom, D., Ho, D. E. 2021; 131 (2): 370-474

    View details for Web of Science ID 000725611900001

  • Disparate Limbo: How Administrative Law Erased Antidiscrimination YALE LAW JOURNAL Ceballos, C., Engstrom, D., Ho, D. E. 2021; 131 (2): 370-474

    View details for Web of Science ID 000727945500006

  • DIGITAL CIVIL PROCEDURE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW Engstrom, D. 2021; 169 (8): 2243-2289

    View details for Web of Science ID 000751861000005

  • Rights, Redistribution, and the Rise of the "Litigation State": The Case of Disability Discrimination Laws LAW AND SOCIAL INQUIRY-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION Engstrom, D., Hausman, D. K. 2021; 46 (3): 788-825

    View details for Web of Science ID 000688153000007

  • LEGAL TECH, CIVIL PROCEDURE, AND THE FUTURE OF ADVERSARIALISM UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW Engstrom, D., Gelbach, J. B. 2021; 169 (4): 1001-1099

    View details for Web of Science ID 000661136300002

  • Algorithmic Accountability in the Administrative State YALE JOURNAL ON REGULATION Engstrom, D., Ho, D. E. 2020; 37 (3): 800–854

    View details for Web of Science ID 000567989300001

  • "Not Merely There to Help the Men": Equal Pay Laws, Collective Rights, and the Making of the Modern Class Action STANFORD LAW REVIEW Engstrom, D. 2018; 70 (1): 1–97

    View details for Web of Science ID 000424312800001

  • Bounty regimes RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON CORPORATE CRIME AND FINANCIAL MISDEALING Engstrom, D., Arlen, J. 2018: 334–61

    View details for Web of Science ID 000449923100015

  • What If California Had a Foreign Policy? The New Frontier of States' Rights WASHINGTON QUARTERLY Engstrom, D., Weinstein, J. M. 2018; 41 (1): 27–43

    View details for DOI 10.1080/0163660X.2018.1445356

    View details for Web of Science ID 000428598900002

  • JACOBINS AT JUSTICE: THE (FAILED) CLASS ACTION REVOLUTION OF 1978 AND THE PUZZLE OF AMERICAN PROCEDURAL POLITICAL ECONOMY UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW REVIEW Engstrom, D. 2017; 165 (7): 1531–63

    View details for Web of Science ID 000415592600002

  • PRIVATE ENFORCEMENT'S PATHWAYS: LESSONS FROM QUI TAM LITIGATION COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW Engstrom, D. F. 2014; 114 (8): 1913-2006

    View details for Web of Science ID 000346453000001

  • THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT AT FIFTY: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE STANFORD LAW REVIEW Engstrom, D. F. 2014; 66 (6): 1195-1204

    View details for Web of Science ID 000339087500001

  • Agencies as Litigation Gatekeepers YALE LAW JOURNAL Engstrom, D. F. 2013; 123 (3): 616-712

    View details for Web of Science ID 000329381300002

  • PUBLIC REGULATION OF PRIVATE ENFORCEMENT: EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF DOJ OVERSIGHT OF QUI TAM LITIGATION UNDER THE FALSE CLAIMS ACT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW Engstrom, D. F. 2013; 107 (4): 1689-1755

    View details for Web of Science ID 000340886700004

  • THE TWIQBAL PUZZLE AND EMPIRICAL STUDY OF CIVIL PROCEDURE STANFORD LAW REVIEW Engstrom, D. F. 2013; 65 (6): 1203-1248

    View details for Web of Science ID 000321534100002

  • CORRALLING CAPTURE HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY Engstrom, D. F. 2013; 36 (1): 31-39

    View details for Web of Science ID 000314324600004

  • HARNESSING THE PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL: EVIDENCE FROM QUI TAM LITIGATION COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW Engstrom, D. F. 2012; 112 (6): 1244-1325

    View details for Web of Science ID 000310930500002

  • THE LOST ORIGINS OF AMERICAN FAIR EMPLOYMENT LAW: REGULATORY CHOICE AND THE MAKING OF MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS, 1943-1972 STANFORD LAW REVIEW Engstrom, D. F. 2011; 63 (5): 1071-1143

    View details for Web of Science ID 000291282000002

  • The 1996 welfare law: Key elements and reauthorization issues affecting children FUTURE OF CHILDREN GREENBERG, M. H., Levin-Epstein, J., Hutson, R. Q., Ooms, T. J., Schumacher, R., Turetsky, V., Engstrom, D. M. 2002; 12 (1): 27-57

    View details for Web of Science ID 000181114700003