Duncan Hosie is a legal scholar and the director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. He previously served as the Steven Polan Fellow in Constitutional Law and History at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. In 2026, the Yale Law Journal named him Emerging Scholar of the Year.

Before entering legal academia, he practiced law as a Liman Fellow at the ACLU Ruth Bader Ginsburg Liberty Center, clerked for Judge Paul J. Watford of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and worked as an appellate attorney at a leading Supreme Court and appellate practice.

His legal scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Cornell Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Stanford Law Review Online, and the Yale Law Journal Forum, among other journals. His writing for broader audiences on constitutional law has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other national publications. His scholarship has also been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and on NPR.

Hosie is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he received the Judge William Miller Prize for the best paper concerning the Bill of Rights. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University, where he was awarded the Donald E. Stokes Dean’s Prize. He also received a master’s degree in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics and a master’s degree in U.S. History from Oxford University as a Marshall Scholar.