Asylum Access

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar is Professor of Law and the Deane F. Johnson Faculty Scholar at Stanford Law School. Trained as a lawyer and a political scientist, he focuses his scholarship on how organizations cope with the legal responsibility for managing complex criminal justice, regulatory, and international security problems. He has published a leading academic paper on the regulation of criminal financial activity, and one of the most exhaustive empirical case studies of public participation in regulatory rulemaking proceedings. Recent projects address the role of criminal enforcement in managing transnational threats, immigration and refugee policy in the United States and the developing world, the priorities of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the scope of "national security" during the administrations of Franklin Roosevelt and George W. Bush, and the impact of bureaucratic structure on how institutions implement domestic and international legal mandates.

Professor Cuéllar is on the Executive Committees of the Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation as well as the Stanford International Initiative. In recent years, he has testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, served as a fellow of the U.S.-Japan Foundation, and worked on initiatives for the reform of health and safety regulatory analysis. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 2001, he served as senior advisor to the U.S. Treasury Department's Under Secretary for Enforcement and clerked for Chief Judge Mary M. Schroeder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.