Scott MacGuidwin is a non-resident fellow at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. He studies the powers of federal courts and administrative agencies. His current work explores the lessons that the American Framers drew (or did not draw) from the English grant and removal of Crown charters, offices, and franchises. His legal scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review, the Notre Dame Law Review, and the New York University Journal of Law and Liberty.

Scott currently practices at Kellogg Hansen in Washington, D.C., where he represents plaintiffs and defendants in trial, appellate, and Supreme Court litigation. Before joining the Center, Scott clerked for Chief Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton and Judge Eric E. Murphy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Scott earned his law degree summa cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as Articles Editor of the Michigan Law Review. He received a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School and a B.A. in Computational Biology from the University of Pennsylvania.