Rate My Professor Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar

Cuéllar’s research focuses on administrative law, the effects of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies on public institutions, American public law and democracy, and the political economy of administrative systems addressing transnational issues such as security, migration, public health, and illicit finance. Notable publications include "Governing Security: The Hidden Origins of American Security Agencies" (Stanford University Press, 2013), "Government by Algorithm: Artificial Intelligence in Federal Administrative Agencies" (Administrative Conference of the United States, 2020), "Economies of Surveillance" (133 Harvard Law Review 1280, 2020, with Aziz Huq), and "Responding to the Opioid Crisis in North America and Beyond" (2022). He has received the Great Immigrant Award (Carnegie Corporation, 2024), election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018), and honorary Doctor of Laws from Santa Clara University (2016). Cuéllar has extensive public service experience, including as Special Assistant to the President for Justice and Regulatory Policy at the White House Domestic Policy Council (2009-2010), Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of the Treasury (1997-1999), co-chair of the U.S. Department of Education's Equity and Excellence Commission (2011-2013), and current service on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board and the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. He chairs the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation board.