Stanford Law School
559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305-8610

tcuellar@stanford.edu
(650) 723-9216 (voice)

Research Interests
federal and international criminal law; law and international security; administrative law, regulatory policy; design and evaluation of public institutions

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar is an affiliated faculty member at CISAC and a professor and the Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar at the Stanford Law School, where he teaches and writes about administrative, criminal, and international law. His academic work focuses how legal rules are implemented in complex political environments, particularly in the areas of criminal justice, international security, and regulatory policy. He is currently at work on three projects: a study of democratic participation in the regulatory process, an analysis of the legal and political factors affecting the security and manipulation of international refugees, and a project on rethinking judicial review of discretionary executive branch legal decisions.

Before joining the faculty at Stanford Law School, Cuéllar worked in government. He clerked for the Honorable Mary M. Schroeder, Chief Judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. From 1997 to 1999, he served in the Clinton Administration as Senior Adviser to the Treasury Department's Under Secretary for Enforcement. While at Treasury, Cuéllar worked on firearms regulation policy, money laundering and financial crime, border enforcement and economic development, and international policing. He represented Treasury on the National Security Council's Haiti Working Group and the U.S. Attorney General's Working Group on Puerto Rico. He also co-chaired the Initiatives Subcommittee of the U.S. Attorney General's Council on White Collar Crime. Before serving at Treasury, Cuéllar worked on the research staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Cuéllar has also worked with various organizations including the Asylum Program of the San Francisco Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, and the Regulatory Policy and Rulemaking Committees of the ABA's Section on Administrative Law. He currently serves on the Steering Committee of Stanford University's International Initiative. In 2002, Cuéllar was named to the Silicon Valley Blue Ribbon Task Force on Aviation Security and Technology.

He grew up on the U.S.-Mexico border, graduating from high school in Calexico, California. He attended Harvard College (AB 1993), Yale Law School (JD 1997), and Stanford Graduate School (AM 1996, PhD 2000).