Jonathan Choi (Minnesota; Google Scholar) has accepted a lateral offer from USC effective Fall 2023:
Professor Jonathan H. Choi specializes in law and artificial intelligence (applying natural language processing to study legal issues), statutory interpretation, and tax law.
Professor Choi earned his B.A. from Dartmouth College, summa cum laude, with a triple major in Computer Science, Economics, and Philosophy and high honors for his Computer Science thesis. He received a J.D. from the Yale Law School, where he was Executive Bluebook Editor of the Yale Law Journal. Before entering the academy, he practiced tax law at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
Professor Choi has published articles in the New York University Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Yale Journal on Regulation, and Yale Law Journal, among others. His work has been covered by a wide variety of news outlets, including ABC News, Bloomberg, CBS News, CNN, the Daily Mail, Fox News, NBC Nightly News, the New Yorker, Reuters, the Star Tribune, and the Washington Post.
His recent publications include:
- Measuring Clarity in Legal Text, 91 U. Chi. L. Rev. __ (2024)
- Subjective Costs of Tax Compliance, 108 Minn. L. Rev. __(2024) (with Ariel Jurow Kleiman (Loyola-LA; Google Scholar))
- ChatGPT Goes to Law School, 72 J. Legal Educ. __ (2023) (with Kristin Hickman (Minnesota; Google Scholar), Amy Monahan (Minnesota) & Daniel Schwarcz (Minnesota; Google Scholar))
- A Limited Defense of Efficiency in a Tax-and-Transfer Framework, 37 Soc. Phil. & Pol'y __ (2023)
- AI Tools for Lawyers: A Practical Guide, 107 Minn. L. Rev. Online __ (2023) (with Daniel Schwarcz (Minnesota; Google Scholar))
- Large Language Models Can Reason About Regulations, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: A Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences __ (2023) (with John Ney et al.)
- Beyond Purposivism in Tax Law, 107 Iowa L. Rev. 1439 (2022)
- Legal Analysis, Policy Analysis, and the Price of Deference: An Empirical Study of Mayo and Chevron, 38 Yale J. on Reg. 818 (2021) (reviewed by Hayes Holderness (Richmond) here)
- The Substantive Canons of Tax Law, 72 Stan. L. Rev. 195 (2020) (reviewed by Kristin Hickman (Minnesota) here)
- An Empirical Study of Statutory Interpretation in Tax Law, 95 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 363 (2020)
- In Defense of the Billable Hour: A Monitoring Theory of Law Firm Fees, 70 S.C. L. Rev. 297 (2018)




