DAVID FREEMAN ENGSTROM
Stanford Law School
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305
(650) 721-5859
dfengstrom@law.stanford.edu
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Stanford Law School. Assistant Professor, 2009-present.
Research and teaching focus upon law and institutional design, particularly regarding civil rights, as well
as topics in administrative law, complex litigation, constitutional federalism, and law and education.
Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel. Associate, 2006-2009.
Represented clients before the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeals, and federal and state
trial courts and administrative agencies in various civil and criminal matters.
Yale Law School. John M. Olin Fellow in Law, Economics, and Public Policy, 2004-2005.
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, D.C. office. Part-Time Attorney, 2003-2004.
Served on two trial teams, including S.D.N.Y. challenge to federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act.
Georgetown University Law Center. Visiting Researcher, 2003-2004.
Hon. Diane P. Wood, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Law Clerk, 2002-2003.
EDUCATION
Yale University, Ph.D. in Political Science, with distinction, 2005
▪ Dissertation: “The Lost Origins of American Fair Employment Law: State Fair Employment
Practices Bureaus and the Politics of Regulatory Design, 1943-1964” (Committee: Susan Rose-
Ackerman, Gregory Huber, Jerry Mashaw)
▪ A. Bartlett Giamatti Award for excellence in graduate writing
▪ Teaching Fellow, Constitutional Law, Department of Political Science, Spring 1998
Stanford University, J.D. with distinction, 2002
▪ Order of the Coif
▪ Stanford Law Review, 2000-2002; Articles Editor, 2001-2002
▪ Teaching Assistant, American National Government, Department of Political Science, Winter 2000, 2001
▪ Summer Associate, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering (2002); Williams & Connolly (2001); O’Melveny
& Meyers (2001) (all Washington, D.C. offices)
▪ U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Divisio