Daniel Ho, William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law, Jacob Goldin, Associate Professor of Law, and Anne Joseph O’Connell, Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law, were the inaugural recipients of the Hoffman-Yee Research Grant Program. This grant, given through the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), is a “multiyear initiative to invest in research that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to address real-world problems.”

The research topic, ‘Reinventing Government with AI: Modern Tax Administration,’ looks to “demonstrate how AI-driven, evidence-based learning can benefit U.S. government agencies by driving efficiencies and improving the delivery of services. The team proposes an active-learning system that uses an AI algorithm to decide which tax returns should be prioritized for auditing for a more effective and fairer tax collection system. This research will have implications for a wide range of other governmental contexts, including environmental and health compliance.”

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Anne Joseph O’Connell, Adelbert H. Sweet Professor of Law, was awarded the 2020 Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law from the American Constitution Society. Her article, Actings, examines open questions about acting government officials through empirical, legal, and normative frameworks. 

The writing award is in honor of the late Judge Cudahy due to his distinguished contributions to the fields of regulatory and administrative law. 

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Bernadette Meyler, Carl and Sheila Spaeth Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research and Intellectual Life, was one of eight Stanford faculty members chosen for the Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship. Through this fellowship, individuals work on their proposed topics along with contributing to the Stanford community through participation in workshops, lectures, and courses. In this year-long appointment as the Ellen Andrews Wright Fellow, Meyler will focus on her individual research topic, Common Law Originalism: The Constitution’s Contested Meanings.

Read the Stanford Humanities Center Announcement

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