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Julian Nyarko

Professor, Stanford Law | Associate Director and Senior Fellow, Stanford HAI | Center Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

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Julian Nyarko is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, where he uses new computational methods to study questions of legal and social scientific importance. He is particularly interested in the use of artificial intelligence to study contract law and design. In addition, Nyarko frequently writes about algorithmic fairness and computational methods. His work reaches a diverse audience. In addition to legal journals, law reviews, it has been published in leading outlets in the general sciences, computer science, and political science.

Before coming to Stanford, Nyarko studied law at the University of Hamburg Law School and received both an LL.M. and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. In addition, he was a fellow in Empirical Law and Economics at Columbia Law School.

For more information, including Nyarko’s CV, research, data and code, please visit his personal website.

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