Aaron Tang

Aaron Tang is professor of law at the UC Davis School of Law. His teaching and research interests include constitutional law, education law, federal courts, labor law, and the intersections among civil litigation, political process, public policy, education law, and federal courts. He has worked as a youth organizer and a middle school teacher in St. Louis, Missouri. He has also worked for the boutique Supreme Court litigation firm Goldstein & Russell, P.C., and clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Supreme Court. Tang was an associate for Jones Day in Washington, DC, immediately before joining the UC Davis law faculty. His recent articles have appeared in the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, New York University Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and Virginia Law Review. He also writes frequently about the Supreme Court for broader audiences. Tang received his JD from Stanford Law School.
updated 2025