Jonathan H. Choi is the James Carr Professor of Law at WashU Law, specializing in law and artificial intelligence, tax law, and statutory interpretation. He is particularly interested in applications of natural language processing (NLP) to empirical legal studies and has published work applying NLP to issues in tax law, statutory interpretation, administrative law, judicial behavior, criminal law, and the legal profession.
His work has appeared in the New York University Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Yale Journal on Regulation, and the Yale Law Journal, among others. He has been interviewed or cited in a variety of media outlets, including ABC, Bloomberg, CBS, CNN, NBC, the New York Times, NPR, the New Yorker, and USA Today.
Professor Choi graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College, with a triple major in Computer Science, Economics, and Philosophy and high honors for his Computer Science thesis. He received a JD at the Yale Law School, where he was the Executive Bluebook Editor of the Yale Law Journal and a founding Co-Director of the Yale Journal on Regulation Online. Before entering academia, Professor Choi practiced tax law at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He previously taught at the University of Southern California and the University of Minnesota, and he is the Donald C. Alexander Visiting Professor in Tax Law at Harvard Law School for Fall 2025.