Daniel E. Ho

Daniel E. Ho
- William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law
- Professor of Political Science
- Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic and Policy Research
- Associate Director, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
- Director of the Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab (RegLab)
- Room N222, Neukom Building
Expertise
- Administrative Law
- Employment Discrimination
- Gender & Sexual Orientation Discrimination
- Judgment & Decision Making
- Law & Economics
- Law & Society
- Policy Analysis
- Public Policy & Empirical Studies
- Race & Ethnicity Discrimination
- Regulatory Policy
- Voting Rights & Election Law
Biography
Daniel E. Ho is the William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Associate Director for the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), and Director of the Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab (RegLab).
He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Faculty Affiliate at the Woods Institute for the Environment, and Faculty Affiliate at the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities. His scholarship centers on quantitative empirical legal studies, with a substantive focus on administrative law, regulatory policy, antidiscrimination law, and courts. Prior to joining Stanford Law School, he clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams on the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science at Harvard University.
He was recipient of the John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching (2010) and co-recipient of the Warren Miller Prize for the best paper published in Political Analysis (2008), the McGraw-Hill Award for the best paper published by political scientists on law and courts (2006), and the Pi Sigma Alpha award for the best paper delivered at the Midwest Political Science Association. Ho served as president for the Society of Empirical Legal Studies (2011-12), and co-editor of the Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization (2013-16).
Education
- BA, University of California - Berkeley, 2000
- AM, Harvard University, 2004
- PhD, Harvard University, 2004
- JD, Yale Law School, 2005
Related Organizations
Courses
- Administrative Law
- Directed Writing
- Directed Research
- Discussion (1L): Asian Americans and the Law
- Food Law and Policy
- Law and Politics of Bureaucracy
- Law, Bias, and Algorithms
- Policy Practicum: Administering by Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence in the Regulatory State
- Policy Practicum: Creating a National Research Cloud
- Policy Practicum: Creating a Social Media Oversight Board for Content Decisions
- Policy Practicum: Developing Best Practices for Clean Water Act Enforcement
- Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab: Practicum