David Freeman Engstrom

Engstrom grew up an air force kid in Dayton, Ohio.{{Cite web |date=2009-10-19 |title=New Faculty |url=https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-lawyer/articles/new-faculty/ |access-date=2023-11-26 |website=Stanford Law School |language=en}} He graduated from Walter E. Stebbins High School in 1989,{{Cite web |title=Outstanding Alumnus Award |url=https://www.madriverschools.org/Page/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.madriverschools.org%2Fsite%2Fdefault.aspx%3FPageID%3D645 |access-date=2023-11-26 |website=www.madriverschools.org |language=en}} and from Dartmouth College in 1993 with an A.B., magna cum laude, in History. After college, Engstrom joined the Mississippi Teacher Corps and taught high school English and coached football.{{Cite web |date=2015-09-01 |title=1993 |url=https://www.mtc.olemiss.edu/alumni-directory/2015/9/1/1993 |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=Mississippi Teacher Corps |language=en-US}} He then attended Oxford University as a Fulbright Scholar, earning an M.Sc. in Economic and Social History in 1997.{{Cite web |date=1995-12-01 |title=Graduate Students Awarded Fulbright Grants for Study Abroad |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/graduate-students-awarded-fulbright-grants-for-study-abroad/}} In 2002, Engstrom graduated with a J.D., Order of the Coif and with honors, from Stanford Law School, where he edited the Stanford Law Review.{{Cite web |title=Volume 54 (2001-2002) |url=https://www.stanfordlawreview.org/mastheads/volume-54-2001-2002/ |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=Stanford Law Review |language=en}} He also holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University.{{Cite web |title=Graduate Placement |website=Yale Department of Political Science |url=https://politicalscience.yale.edu/graduate-placement |access-date=2023-11-25}}

Engstrom joined the Stanford Law School faculty in 2009.{{Cite web |title=David Freeman Engstrom |url=https://law.stanford.edu/directory/david-freeman-engstrom/ |access-date= |website=Stanford Law School}} He became Professor of Law in 2014. From 2018 to 2021, he served as Associate Dean, and in 2021, he became the LSVF Professor. He teaches, among other courses, Civil Procedure, Administrative Law, and Access to Justice.

Engstrom is a scholar of public law, complex organizations, and political economy whose research and teaching explore problems in administrative law and legislation, artificial intelligence and the law, constitutional law, civil rights, and access to courts. His scholarly work has been frequently cited by courts and litigants. He also frequently authors or co-authors litigation and amicus briefs filed in courts.{{Cite web |title=Brief of Amici Curiae Law Professors in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellees and Affirmance, Upsolve, Inc. v. James |url=https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/2023.1.11-Upsolve-v.-James-Amicus-Brief-of-law-profs-filed.pdf}}{{Cite web |title=Brief of Amici Curiae Legal Historians in Support of Respondent, Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Bonta |url=https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/19-251/174926/20210405135155426_FINAL19-251L%20Ami.ALL.E-FILE.ALL%20PDFA.pdf}}

In 2020, Engstrom was a principal adviser to the Administrative Conference of the United States and co-author of a major report with Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Daniel Ho, and Catherine Sharkey on the use of artificial intelligence by federal agencies.{{Cite web |title=Government by Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence in Federal Administrative Agencies |url=https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/ACUS-AI-Report.pdf}} In 2023, Engstrom published a book, Legal Tech and the Future of Civil Justice.{{Cite book |last=Freeman Engstrom |first=David |title=Legal Tech and the Future of Civil Justice |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2023 |isbn=9781009255301}} In 2021, Engstrom co-founded the Filing Fairness Project, a collaboration between Stanford Law School and six states to improve court filing processes for self-represented litigants.{{Cite web |title=Filing Fairness Project |url=https://law.stanford.edu/filing-fairness-project/ |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=Stanford Law School |language=en}} In 2021, Engstrom was named the Co-Director, with his colleague and spouse, Nora Freeman Engstrom, of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession, named for their former colleague, Deborah Rhode.{{Cite web |title=Bloomberg Industry Group News |url=https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/pair-succeeds-ethics-trailblazer-deborah-rhode-at-stanford-law;%20https://clp.law.stanford.edu/ |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=news.bloomberglaw.com}} In 2022, the American Law Institute appointed Engstrom the Reporter for the project, Principles of the Law, High-Volume Civil Adjudication.{{Cite web |title=The American Law Institute Launches Principles Project on High-Volume, High-Stakes, Low-Dollar-Value Civil Claims |url=https://www.ali.org/news/articles/american-law-institute-launches-principles-project-high-volume-high-stakes-low-dollar-value-civil-claims/ |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=American Law Institute |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Current Projects |url=https://www.ali.org/projects/show/high-volume-civil-adjudication/ |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=American Law Institute |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2023-01-05 |title=SLS Faculty at the American Law Institute |url=https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-lawyer/articles/sls-faculty-at-the-american-law-institute/ |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=Stanford Law School |language=en}}

Engstrom is an appointed member of the Administrative Conference of the United States{{Cite web |title=Public Member {{!}} Administrative Conference of the United States |url=https://www.acus.gov/directory/public-member |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=www.acus.gov}} and an elected member of the American Law Institute.{{Cite web |title=Members |url=https://www.ali.org/members/member/438842/ |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=American Law Institute |language=en}}

Engstrom has published legal commentaries in the New York Times,{{Cite news |last=Engstrom |first=David Freeman |date=2017-10-02 |title=Opinion {{!}} Let Wronged Workers Join Together for Justice |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/opinion/arbitration-class-action-supreme-court.html |access-date=2023-11-25 |issn=0362-4331}} Slate,{{Cite news |last=Engstrom |first=David Freeman |last2=Engstrom |first2=Nora Freeman |date=2022-10-17 |title=Why Do Blue States Keep Prioritizing Lawyers Over Low-Income Americans? |language=en-US |work=Slate |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/10/blue-states-legal-services-lawyers-fail.html |access-date=2023-11-25 |issn=1091-2339}} Bloomberg,{{Cite web |title=Bloomberg Industry Group News |url=https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/dont-scapegoat-robots-to-protect-the-lawyer-monopoly-on-services;%20https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-07-15/michigan-eviction-cases-show-how-courts-must-adapt-to-coronavirus |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=news.bloomberglaw.com}} and CNN.{{Cite web |title=Why health care ruling not a game-ender |url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/02/02/engstrom.health.law.ruling/index.html |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=www.cnn.com |language=en}} His history of a novel lawsuit against General Motors for sex discrimination in the 1930s was featured in Smithsonian Magazine in 2022.{{Cite web |last=Kernan |first=Martin J. |title=The Little-Known Story of the Women Who Stood Up to General Motors and Demanded Equal Pay |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/women-stood-up-general-motors-demanded-equal-pay-180980768/ |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=Smithsonian Magazine |language=en}}

Engstrom's scholarship has been published in the Stanford Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, and University of Pennsylvania Law Review, including:

• Agencies as Litigation Gatekeepers, 123 Yale L.J. 616 (2013){{Cite web |last=Engstrom |first=David Freeman |title=Agencies as Litigation Gatekeepers |url=https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/agencies-as-litigation-gatekeepers |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=www.yalelawjournal.org}}
• Digital Civil Procedure, 169 U. Pa. L. Rev. 2243 (2021){{Cite journal |last=Engstrom |first=David |date=2021-01-01 |title=Digital Civil Procedure |url=https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/penn_law_review/vol169/iss8/4 |journal=University of Pennsylvania Law Review |volume=169 |issue=8 |pages=2243}}
• Legal Tech, Civil Procedure, and the Future of Adversarialism, 169 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1001 (2021) (with Jonah Gelbach){{Cite journal |last=Engstrom |first=David |last2=Gelbach |first2=Jonah |date=2021-01-01 |title=Legal Tech, Civil Procedure, and the Future of Adversarialism |url=https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/penn_law_review/vol169/iss4/2 |journal=University of Pennsylvania Law Review |volume=169 |issue=4 |pages=1001}}
• Legal Tech and the Future of Civil Justice (editor) (Cambridge University Press 2023)
• Legal Innovation After Reform: Evidence from Regulatory Change, Report of the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession (2022) (with Graham Ambrose, Lucy Ricca, and Maddie Walsh){{Cite web |title=Legal Innovation After Reform: Evidence from Regulatory Change |url=https://law.stanford.edu/publications/legal-innovation-after-reform-evidence-from-regulatory-change/ |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=Stanford Law School |language=en}}
• Disparate Limbo: How Administrative Law Erased Antidiscrimination, 131 Yale L.J. 370 (2021) (with Cristina Ceballos and Daniel Ho){{Cite web |last3=Ho |first3=Daniel E. |first1=Cristina Isabel |last1=Ceballos |first2=David Freeman |last2=Engstrom |title=Disparate Limbo: How Administrative Law Erased Antidiscrimination |url=https://www.yalelawjournal.org/article/disparate-limbo |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=www.yalelawjournal.org}}
• Government by Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence in Federal Administrative Agencies (report to the Administrative Conference of the United States) (with Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Daniel Ho, and Catherine Sharkey) (2020)
• The Lost Origins of American Fair Employment Law: Regulatory Choice and the Making of Modern Civil Rights, 1943-72, 63 Stan. L. Rev. 1071 (2011){{Cite web |title=The Lost Origins of Fair Employment Law: Regulatory Choice and the Making of Modern Civil Rights, 1943-1972 |url=https://law.stanford.edu/publications/the-lost-origins-of-fair-employment-law-regulatory-choice-and-the-making-of-modern-civil-rights-1943-1972/ |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=Stanford Law School |language=en}}
• The Twiqbal Puzzle and Empirical Study of Civil Procedure, 65 Stan. L. Rev. 1203 (2013){{Cite web |title=The Twiqbal Puzzle and Empirical Study of Civil Procedure |url=https://law.stanford.edu/publications/the-twiqbal-puzzle-and-empirical-study-of-civil-procedure/ |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=Stanford Law School |language=en}}
• Harnessing the Private Attorney General: Evidence from Qui Tam Litigation, 112 Colum. L. Rev. 1244 (2012){{Cite web |title=Harnessing the Private Attorney General: Evidence from Qui Tam Litigation |url=https://law.stanford.edu/publications/harnessing-the-private-attorney-general-evidence-from-qui-tam-litigation/ |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=Stanford Law School |language=en}}
• Regulating Government AI and the Challenge of Sociotechnical Design, 19 Ann. Rev. L. & Soc. Sci. 277 (2023){{Cite journal |last=Engstrom |first=David Freeman |last2=Haim |first2=Amit |date=2023-10-13 |title=Regulating Government AI and the Challenge of Sociotechnical Design |url=https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-120522-091626 |journal=Annual Review of Law and Social Science |language=en |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=277–298 |doi=10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-120522-091626 |issn=1550-3585|doi-access=free }}

In 2012, Engstrom won the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Cromwell Article Prize from the American Society of Legal History.{{Cite web |date=2018-11-26 |title=Cromwell Article Prize {{!}} American Society for Legal History |url=https://aslh.net/award/cromwell-article-prize/ |access-date=2023-11-25 |language=en-US}}

Engstrom is married to fellow Stanford Law Professor Nora Freeman Engstrom.{{Cite news |date=2003-10-12 |title=WEDDINGS/CELEBRATIONS; Nora Freeman, David Engstrom |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/12/style/weddings-celebrations-nora-freeman-david-engstrom.html |access-date=2023-11-25 |issn=0362-4331}}

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