Aidan Houston is the Public Law Fellow at Stanford Law School. He is working to establish a new lab for local democracy at the law school, which he will direct alongside Professor Michelle Wilde Anderson. His writing and research focuses on political community, civil society, and religion.

Prior to completing his JD at SLS, he graduated from Harvard Divinity School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He previously worked for the federal government at the United States Institute of Peace, where he was based in the Religion Office, researching and coordinating international peacebuilding and reconciliation efforts with religious actors in conflict zones around the world.