Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar

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Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar
Born 1972
Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico
Nationality American
Alma mater Harvard (B.A.)
Yale (J.D.)
Stanford (Phd)
Occupation Professor
Lawyer
Spouse(s) Lucy Koh

Mariano-Florentino "Tino" Cuéllar (born 1972) is an American lawyer, academic, and former official in the Clinton and Obama administrations. He is an expert in administrative law and governance, transnational security, public organizations, and the law of public health and safety. He is currently the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Director of Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.[1] He has been the Co-Director of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation.

Early life and education

An American citizen, Cuéllar was born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, México, and attended junior high school in Brownsville, Texas. When he was in high school, his family moved from Texas to the city of Calexico, in California’s Imperial Valley.

He graduated magna cum laude with a BA from Harvard in 1993, a JD from Yale Law School in 1997, and a PhD in political science from Stanford in 2000.

Professional career

Cuéllar's research and teaching focus on administrative law, executive power, and how organizations implement regulatory responsibilities involving public health and safety, migration, and international security in a changing world.[2] Before joining Stanford Law School, Cuéllar worked at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he focused on anti-corruption initiatives, border coordination, and financial enforcement. He clerked for the Honorable Chief Judge Mary M. Schroeder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Cuéllar joined the Stanford Law School in 2001, and was promoted to Professor and Deane F Johnson Faculty Scholar in 2007. At Stanford, he also served as Co-Director of the university's inter-disciplinary Center for International Security and Cooperation from 2011 to 2013.[3] In February 2013, he was chosen to serve as Director of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, a university-wide research and education institution.

Cuéllar was a member of the Obama-Biden Transition Project from 2008,[4] where he co-directed the working group on immigration, borders and refugee policy.

From early 2009 to the summer of 2010, Cuéllar took leave from Stanford Law School and served as a Special Assistant to the President for Justice and Regulatory Policy at the White House Domestic Policy Council.[5] While at the White House, he led the Domestic Policy Council’s work on public health and safety, regulatory reform, civil rights, immigration, and rural and agricultural policy. He coordinated the Food Safety Working Group,[6] a new inter-agency effort tasked with revamping federal food safety efforts.

In July 2010, President Barack Obama appointed[7][8] Cuéllar to the Council of the nonpartisan Administrative Conference of the United States.[9] In addition, Education Secretary Arne Duncan appointed Cuéllar to the National Equity and Excellence Commission in early 2011. Cuéllar then served as Co-Chair of the Commission, which issued a unanimous report on February 19, 2013.[3] He serves on the Board of Directors of The Constitution Project, a bipartisan non-profit organization that builds consensus on significant constitutional issues affecting the rule of law and criminal justice.[10]

In 2011, Cuéllar was one of the candidates under consideration by California Governor Jerry Brown to fill the vacancy on the California Supreme Court created by the retirement of Justice Carlos R. Moreno.[11]

Personal

Cuéllar is married to United States District Judge Lucy H. Koh of the Northern District of California, and they have two children. They live in Northern California.

References

  1. ↑ "Law Professor, Security Expert to Lead FSI". Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Retrieved 2013-02-15. 
  2. ↑ "Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Stanley Morrison Professor of Law". Stanford Law School. Retrieved 2012-12-24. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar becomes CISAC co-director". Center for International Security and Cooperation. September 5, 2011. Retrieved 2012-12-24. 
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ "CISAC Faculty Member Mariano-Florentino Cuellar asked to serve on White House Domestic Policy Council". Center for International Security and Cooperation. March 13, 2009. Retrieved 2012-12-24. 
  6. ↑ "Foodborne Illness Victims Meet with White House to Push for Food Safety Reform". Make Our Food Safe. Retrieved 2012-12-24. 
  7. ↑ "President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts, 7/8/10". Whitehouse.gov. July 8, 2010. Retrieved 2012-12-24. 
  8. ↑ "Mariano-Florentino Cuellar to be appointed to the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States". FSI Stanford. July 9, 2010. Retrieved 2012-12-24. 
  9. ↑ "The Conference". ACUS. Retrieved 2012-12-24. 
  10. ↑ "Directors and advisors". The Constitution Project. Retrieved 2012-12-24. 
  11. ↑ Dolan, Maura (February 14, 2011). "Brown considers an activist for state Supreme Court appointment". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 18, 2011. 

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