David Freeman Engstrom

Stanford Law School

Professor of Law

559 Nathan Abbott Way

Stanford, CA 94305-8610

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

32

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Scholarly Papers (32)

1.

Government by Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence in Federal Administrative Agencies

NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-54
Number of pages: 122 Posted: 02 Apr 2020
Stanford Law School, Stanford Law School, New York University School of Law and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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artificial intelligence, machine learning, administrative agencies, administrative law, algorithmic governance, ACUS report, algorithmic accountability, public administration

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Legal Tech, Civil Procedure, and the Future of Adversarialism

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 02 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2021
David Freeman Engstrom and Jonah B. Gelbach
Stanford Law School and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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civil procedure, legal tech, artificial intelligence, machine learning, pleading standards, discovery, legal automation, work product doctrine, adversarial legalism, access to justice, forum shopping

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Harnessing the Private Attorney General: Evidence from Qui Tam Litigation

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 112, 2012, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2290847
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 08 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 07 Mar 2014
David Freeman Engstrom
Stanford Law School
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qui tam, False Claims Act, private enforcement, private attorney general, litigation oversight, repeat-play, returns to litigation specialization

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Agencies as Litigation Gatekeepers

123 Yale Law Journal 616 (2013)
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 08 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2014
David Freeman Engstrom
Stanford Law School
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institutional design, administrative law, litigation, employment discrimination, Walmart v. Dukes, public and private enforcement, litigation oversight

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Artificially Intelligent Government: A Review and Agenda

Big Data Law (Roland Vogl, ed., 2020, Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 02 Apr 2020
David Freeman Engstrom and Daniel E. Ho
Stanford Law School and Stanford Law School
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artificial intelligence, machine learning, algorithmic governance, administrative law, algorithmic accountability, public administration

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Whither Whistleblowing? Bounty Regimes, Regulatory Context, and the Challenge of Optimal Design

15 Theoretical Inquiries in Law 605 (2014), Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2341808
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 21 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2014
David Freeman Engstrom
Stanford Law School
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bounty regimes, qui tam, Dodd-Frank, private enforcement, whistleblowing, whistleblowers, False Claims Act

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The 'Twiqbal' Puzzle and Empirical Study of Civil Procedure

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 65, No. 6, 2013, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2290845
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 08 Jul 2013
David Freeman Engstrom
Stanford Law School
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Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, Ashcroft v. Iqbal, pretrial practice, motions to dismiss, empirical legal studies, civil procedure

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Private Enforcement's Pathways: Lessons from Qui Tam Litigation

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 114, No. 8, 2014, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2539345
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 18 Dec 2014
David Freeman Engstrom
Stanford Law School
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qui tam, False Claims Act, private enforcement, litigation oversight, litigation behavior, procurement fraud, bounty regimes, public enforcement, Department of Justice, litigation and democracy, regulatory litigation

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Public Regulation of Private Enforcement: Empirical Analysis of DOJ Oversight of Qui Tam Litigation Under the False Claims Act

107 Nw. U. L. Rev. 1689 (2013)
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 21 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2014
David Freeman Engstrom
Stanford Law School
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qui tam, False Claims Act, private enforcement, litigation oversight, litigation gatekeepers, procurement fraud, bounty regimes, public enforcement, Department of Justice

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Corralling Capture

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Vol. 36, 2013, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2341810
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 21 Oct 2013
David Freeman Engstrom
Stanford Law School
Downloads 555 (108,383)
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capture, administrative state, regulation, public choice theory

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The Lost Origins of American Fair Employment Law: Regulatory Choice and the Making of Modern Civil Rights, 1943-1972

Stanford Law Review, Vol. 63, May 2011, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 1845925
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 24 May 2011 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2014
David Freeman Engstrom
Stanford Law School
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Algorithmic Accountability in the Administrative State

Yale Journal on Regulation, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 02 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2020
David Freeman Engstrom and Daniel E. Ho
Stanford Law School and Stanford Law School
Downloads 538 (112,772)
Citation 1

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artificial intelligence, machine learning, algorithmic governance, algorithmic accountability, administrative law, reinventing government, public administration

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The New Judicial Governance: Courts, Data, and the Future of Civil Justice

DePaul Law Review (Clifford Symposium), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 24 Feb 2022
David Freeman Engstrom and R.J. Vogt
Stanford Law School and Stanford University, School of Law
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access to justice, legal tech, data governance, court administration

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Disparate Limbo: How Administrative Law Erased Antidiscrimination

Yale Law Journal (2021)
Number of pages: 105 Posted: 25 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2021
David Freeman Engstrom, Daniel E. Ho and Cristina Isabel Ceballos
Stanford Law School, Stanford Law School and University of California, Berkeley
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administrative law, antidiscrimination, civil rights, Title VI, arbitrary and capricious review

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The Civil Rights Act at Fifty: Past, Present, Future

66 Stanford Law Review 1195 (2014), Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2449945
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 14 Jun 2014
David Freeman Engstrom
Stanford Law School
Downloads 417 (152,965)
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Civil Rights Act of 1964, antidiscrimination law, public accommodations, employment discrimination, Employment Non-Discrimination Act

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Post-COVID Courts

68 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 246 (2020)
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 01 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2020
David Freeman Engstrom
Stanford Law School
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Digital Civil Procedure

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 169, No. 7, 2021
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 29 Oct 2021
David Freeman Engstrom
Stanford Law School
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Supreme Court Amicus Brief (Cert Stage) of Civil Procedure and Securities Law Professors in Support of Certiorari, Public Employees' Retirement System of Mississippi v. IndyMac MBS, Inc., No. 13-640 (filed Dec. 26, 2013)

Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2373550
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 02 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 11 Jun 2014
David Freeman Engstrom
Stanford Law School
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American Pipe, Rule 23, class actions, securities litigation, Rules Enabling Act, amicus brief

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'Not Merely There to Help the Men': Equal Pay Laws, Collective Rights, and the Making of the Modern Class Action

70 Stanford Law Review 1 (2018), Stanford Public Law Working Paper
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 23 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2017
David Freeman Engstrom
Stanford Law School
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American Pipe, Rule 23, class actions, securities litigation, amicus brief

21.

Bounty Regimes

in Jennifer Arlen, Ed., Research Handbook on Corporate Crime and Financial Misdealing (2017, Forthcoming), Stanford Public Law Working Paper
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 26 Jun 2017
David Freeman Engstrom
Stanford Law School
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whistleblower, False Claims Act, Dodd-Frank, corporate crime, financial fraud and misdealing

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Secrecy by Stipulation

74 Duke L.J. 99, Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 599, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 02 May 2024 Last Revised: 26 Feb 2025
Stanford Law School, Stanford Law School, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Stanford University and Stanford Law School
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Protective Orders, Rule 26, Rule 26(c), civil procedure, stipulated orders, secrecy, transparency, NDAs

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Jacobins at Justice: The (Failed) Class Action Revolution of 1978 and the Puzzle of American Procedural Political Economy

165 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1531 (2017), Stanford Public Law Working Paper
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 23 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2017
David Freeman Engstrom
Stanford Law School
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class action, legal history, civil procedure

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The Making of the A2J Crisis

Stanford Law Review Online, Vol. 75, No. 146, 2024
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 20 May 2024
Nora Freeman Engstrom and David Freeman Engstrom
Stanford Law School and Stanford Law School
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access to justice, A2J, legal ethics, debt collection, default judgments, self-represented litigants, pro se litigants

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Plaintiffs and Attorneys in Multidistrict Litigation: Strengths, Deficits, and Paths Forward

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 12 Jun 2023
Nora Freeman Engstrom, Todd Venook, David Freeman Engstrom and Silvie Saltzman
Stanford Law School, Stanford Law School, Stanford Law School and Stanford Law School
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multidistrict litigation, MDL, complex civil litigation, aggregate litigation, plaintiffs, innovation

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Rethinking "Our Bar Federalism"

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 24-18, Stanford Public Law Working Paper
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 18 Jul 2024
Daniel B. Rodriguez and David Freeman Engstrom
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American Pipe Tolling, Statutes of Repose, and Protective Filings: An Empirical Study

69 Stanford Law Review Online 92 (2017), Stanford Public Law Working Paper, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 17-26
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 23 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2017
David Freeman Engstrom and Jonah B. Gelbach
Stanford Law School and University of California, Berkeley - School of Law
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American Pipe, tolling rules, civil procedure, Rule 23, empirical legal studies

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Agencies as Litigation Gatekeepers: An Empirical Analysis of DOJ Intervention Under the Qui Tam Provisions of the False Claims Act

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 16 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 18 Sep 2021
David Freeman Engstrom
Stanford Law School
Downloads 40 (939,131)
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Law Professors' Amicus Brief Supporting the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 16 Sep 2024
Stanford Law School, Stanford Law School, University of California, Berkeley - School of Law, Stanford Law School and Rhode Center on the Legal Profession, Stanford Law School
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Regulating Government AI and the Challenge of Sociotechnical Design

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 19, pp. 277-298, 2023
Posted: 20 Oct 2023
David Freeman Engstrom and Amit Haim
Stanford Law School and Stanford University, School of Law

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What If California Had a Foreign Policy? The New Frontier of States' Rights

41 The Washington Quarterly 27 (2018)
Posted: 15 Nov 2021
David Freeman Engstrom and Jeremy M. Weinstein
Stanford Law School and Stanford University - Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

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foreign affairs federalism, climate policy, immigration policy, human rights

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Rights, Redistribution, and the Rise of the 'Litigation State': The Case of Disability Discrimination Laws

Engstrom, D., & Hausman, D. (2021). Rights, Redistribution, and the Rise of the “Litigation State”: The Case of Disability Discrimination Laws. Law & Social Inquiry, 46(3), 788-825. doi:10.1017/lsi.2020.25
Posted: 15 Oct 2021
David Freeman Engstrom and David Hausman
Stanford Law School and UC Berkeley Law School

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Other Papers (2)

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Rights, Redistribution, and the Rise of the 'Litigation State': The Case of Disability Discrimination Laws

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 02 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2016
David Freeman Engstrom and David Hausman
Stanford Law School and UC Berkeley Law School
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