Diego A. Zambrano

Diego Zambrano is a Sidley Austin-Robert D. McLean Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School. At Stanford Law School, he is a Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Global Programs, and the Faculty Director of the Neukom Center for the Rule of Law. His primary research and teaching interests lie in the areas of civil procedure, transnational litigation, and judicial federalism. His work explores the civil litigation landscape: the institutions, norms, and incentives that influence litigant and judicial behavior. He also has an interest in comparative constitutional law and legal developments related to Latin America.

Zambrano’s scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming at the Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Stanford Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and Virginia Law Review, among other journals, and has been honored by the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) and the National Civil Justice Institute. Zambrano is a co-author of the leading casebook Civil Procedure: A Modern Approach (8th ed. 2024) (with Marcus, Pfander, and Redish). He also writes about legal issues for broader public audiences, with his contributions appearing in the Journal of Democracy, The Wall Street Journal, BBC News, and Lawfare.