Professor Jon Choi Named McKnight-Land Grant Professor

Professor Jon Choi has been named a McKnight-Land Grant Professor by the University’s Office of the Provost.

The McKnight Land-Grant Professorship program at the University "is designed to advance the careers of the most promising junior faculty members who are at the beginning stages of their professional careers, and who have the potential to make significant contributions to their departments and to their scholarly fields." Recipients are chosen based on significance of the research, past and present achievements, professional promise, potential for attracting and supporting outstanding students, and contributions to the university’s efforts to advance equity and diversity in the service of excellence in teaching, research, and/or service. This two-year award was funded by an endowment gift from the McKnight Foundation and permanent University funds

Choi, who joined Minnesota Law in 2020, specializes in tax law, statutory interpretation, and computational analysis of law (applying natural language processing to study legal issues). He received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, summa cum laude, with a triple major in Computer Science, Economics, and Philosophy, and a J.D. from the Yale Law School, where he was Executive Bluebook Editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Choi has published articles in the New York University Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Yale Journal on Regulation, and Yale Law Journal, among others. His work has been covered by a wide variety of news outlets, including ABC News, Bloomberg, CBS News, CNN, the Daily Mail, Fox News, NBC Nightly News, the New Yorker, Reuters, the Star Tribune, and the Washington Post.

This University award comes with the use of the title from July 1, 2023-June 30, 2025 as well as enhanced research funding for the two-year period.