The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) announced on April 24, 2024, that Stanford Law School’s Daniel Ho was elected to the Academy. Founded in 1780 “to help a young nation face its challenges through shared purpose, knowledge, and ideas,” the AAAS is “both an honorary society that recognizes the excellence of its members and an independent research center convening leaders from across disciplines, professions, and perspectives to address significant challenges,” according to the AAAS website.

Ho is the William Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor of Law; professor of political science in the School of Humanities and Sciences; professor, by courtesy, of computer science in the School of Engineering; senior fellow at Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI); senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR); and director of the Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab (RegLab). 

Six other Stanford University faculty members were among the 250 artists, scholars, scientists, and other leaders who were inducted into the AAAS this year. They join the illustrious Academy members who came before them, including Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Margaret Mead, and Martin Luther King, Jr., among many others.

“With the broad diversity of members elected this year, we are continuing to expand on the commitment to excellence and wide-ranging expertise established by our founders,” said AAAS Board Chair Goodwin Liu (B.A.Sc. ’91), associate justice of the California Supreme Court, in an AAAS press release. “The honor of election comes with an invitation for new members to rededicate themselves to the common good by advancing the Academy’s nonpartisan, cross-disciplinary work in the arts, democracy, education, global affairs, and science.”

To read about the other Stanford University faculty members named to the academy this year, click here. 

Stanford Law School Professor Daniel Ho

Daniel Ho’s scholarship focuses on administrative law, regulatory policy, and antidiscrimination law. He directs the RegLab, which has developed high-impact demonstration projects of data science and machine learning in public policy, through partnerships with a range of government agencies, including the Internal Revenue Service, the Treasury Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Labor, the Santa Clara County Public Health Department, and Seattle and King County Public Health.

Ho also serves on the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee (NAIAC), advising the White House on AI policy, as Senior Advisor on Responsible AI at the U.S. Department of Labor, on the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, as a Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS), and as Special Advisor to the ABA Task Force on Law and Artificial Intelligence.

He received his J.D. from Yale Law School and Ph.D. from Harvard University and clerked for Judge Stephen F. Williams on the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Read the AAAS’ press release here.

About Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School is one of the nation’s leading institutions for legal scholarship and education. Its alumni are among the most influential decision makers in law, politics, business, and high technology. Faculty members argue before the Supreme Court, testify before Congress, produce outstanding legal scholarship and empirical analysis, and contribute regularly to the nation’s press as legal and policy experts. Stanford Law School has established a model for legal education that provides rigorous interdisciplinary training, hands-on experience, global perspective and focus on public service, spearheading a movement for change.