Aaron Tang is a law professor at the University of California, Davis and former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Tang writes frequently about the Supreme Court in popular media including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Slate, The Atlantic, USA Today, and elsewhere. He is the author of Supreme Hubris: How Overconfidence is Destroying the Court—and How We Can Fix It, published in August 2023 by Yale University Press.
Tang graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 2005. After graduation, he worked as a youth organizer and a middle school teacher in St. Louis, Missouri. He then earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School before clerking for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
His scholarship has appeared in the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, New York University Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Stanford Law Review, and Virginia Law Review, among other journals. Tang’s article ”Rethinking Political Power in Judicial Review“ won the Association of American Law Schools Scholarly Paper Competition.