Albert H. Choi is a professor of law at Stanford Law School. His research and teaching focus on law and economics, contract law, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, corporate governance, antitrust, and litigation.

Choi’s scholarship uses economic theory, empirical methods, and doctrinal analysis to examine how legal rules shape contracts, transactions, corporations, and litigation. Much of his work explores the relationship between legal doctrine, economic theory, and the ways lawyers and businesses structure transactions in practice. His recent and forthcoming research addresses contractual remedies in mergers, liability for nondisclosure in initial public offerings, contract modification, and meme-stock investing and governance.

His work has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals and law reviews, including the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Journal of Industrial Economics, Yale Law Journal, University of Chicago Law Review, NYU Law Review, Virginia Law Review, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Journal of Legal Studies, and Journal of Law and Economics.

Before joining Stanford, Choi was the Paul G. Kauper Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He previously served on the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law and as an assistant professor of economics at the University of Virginia. He has held visiting appointments at Stanford Law School, Yale Law School, Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Choi is vice president of the American Law and Economics Association and has been elected to serve as its president in 2027–2028. He is a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute and serves on the boards of the Asian Law and Economics Association and the Korean Law and Economics Association. He is serving as co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization since 2024 and previously served as co-editor of the American Law and Economics Review.

In his teaching, Choi emphasizes the connection between legal doctrine and transactional practice. He incorporates contracts, merger agreements, corporate charters, bylaws, and other real-world documents to help students understand how lawyers draft, negotiate, and structure legal relationships.

Choi earned a BA, magna cum laude, in economics and mathematics from Pomona College, a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a JD from Yale Law School. At MIT, he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. At Yale, he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics and received the John M. Olin Prize for the best paper in law, economics, and public policy.