Aaron Tang is the Henry W. Bruce Visiting Professor of Law at USC Gould School of Law. His interests are in constitutional law, federal courts and education law. Tang’s scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, New York University Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Virginia Law Review and others.

Tang’s new book project, Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence is Destroying the Court — and How We Can Fix It, was published in August 2023 by Yale University Press. His article, “Rethinking Political Power in Judicial Review” won the Association of American Law Schools Scholarly Paper Competition. His commentary has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Slate and USA Today.

Tang graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in political science. After graduation, he worked as a youth organizer and a middle school teacher in St. Louis, Missouri, before earning his J.D. from Stanford Law School. Tang 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. He was an associate for Jones Day in Washington, D.C., and a Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law prior to joining USC Gould.