Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar

Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar began serving on the California Supreme Court in January 2015. He was nominated by Governor Jerry Brown, confirmed unanimously by the Commission on Judicial Appointments, and retained by the voters for a full term in November 2014. His previous career was in public service, university administration, and legal academia, with a focus on administrative, criminal, and international law.

A member of the Stanford University faculty from 2001 to 2015, Cuéllar was the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and Professor (by courtesy) of Political Science. His books, articles, and chapters focus on administrative agencies, criminal justice, executive power, and legislation, among other subjects, and he is co-author of one of the nation's leading administrative law casebooks. From 2004 to 2015, Cuéllar held leadership positions at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. As Institute Director from 2013 to 2015, he supervised 12 research centers and programs, including the Stanford Center at Peking University. He led university-wide initiatives on global poverty alleviation and cybersecurity, and earlier, co-directed the Institute's Center for International Security and Cooperation.

Cuéllar also served in the federal executive branch. In 2009 and 2010, while on leave from Stanford, he worked at the White House as Special Assistant to the President for Justice and Regulatory Policy. He negotiated provisions in food safety, tobacco, and crack-powder cocaine sentencing reform legislation; convened the White House's food safety working group and coordinated its response to the BP oil spill; set up the President's Equal Pay Task Force; worked on the bipartisan repeal of the military's Don't Ask/Don't Tell policy; and led efforts to support community-based crime prevention and immigrant integration.

Judge

Supreme Court of California

2015 - Current

Leadership positions

Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

2004 - 2015

Institute Director from 2013 to 2015

Professor

Stanford University

2001 - 2015

Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and Professor (by courtesy) of Political Science

Stanford University

PhD | political science

2000

Yale Law School

JD

1997

Stanford University

MA | political science

1996

Harvard University

BA

1993

Rulemaking Committee, American Bar Association Section on Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice

Vice Chair

Current

U.S.-Japan Foundation

Fellow

Current

Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation

Affiliated Faculty Member

Current

Board of Directors, Institute for Renewal of the California Dream

Member

Current

Executive Committee, Stanford International Initiative

Member

Current

Santa Clara County Bar, Presidential Commission on Diversity in the Legal Profession

Member

Current

Dara K. Cohen, Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, and Barry R. Weingast. Crisis Bureaucracy: Homeland Security and the Political Design of Legal Mandates, 59 Stanford Law Review (2006).

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar and Jenny Martinez. Why Latinos Should Oppose the Gonzales Nomination, Human Rights First, January 27, 2005.

Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, 'Securing' the Bureaucracy: The Federal Security Agency and the Political Design of Legal Mandates, 1939-1953, Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 943084 (2006).

Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Auditing Executive Discretion, 82 Notre Dame Law Review (2006).

Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Jenny S. Martinez, Allen S. Weiner and William Aceves, Brief of Amici Curiae Bar Associations and Human Rights Organizations in Support of Petitioner: Jose Ernesto Medellin, Petitioner v. Doug Dretke, Director, Texas Department

Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Refugee Security and the Organizational Logic of Legal Mandates, 38 Georgetown Journal of International Law(2006).

Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Rethinking Regulatory Democracy 57 Administrative Law Review 411 (2005).

Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Running Aground: The Hidden Environmental and Regulatory Implications of Homeland Security, American Constitution Society for Law and Policy Issue Brief, May 2007.

Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, The Untold Story of al-Qaeda's Administrative Law Dilemmas, 91 Minnesota Law Review 1302 (2007).

William J. Aceves, Kevin R. Sullivan, Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Jenny S. Martinez and Allen S. Weiner, Brief of Amici Curiae Bar Associations, Human Rights Organizations and Other Legal Groups in Support of Petitioners: Sanchez-Llamas v. Oregon/Bustillo