Research

Law Review Publications

1. Racial Entanglement and the Colorblindness Fallacy, Utah L. Rev. (forthcoming) (with Ralph Richard Banks).
2. From Publishing to Products: Historical Evidence for a Design-Based Theory of Platform Liability, Geo. Wash. J.L. & Tech. (forthcoming) (with Caitlin Burke).
3. From Intent to Impact: Equal Protection in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, U. Ill. L. Rev. (forthcoming) (with Ralph Richard Banks).
4. Note, Watering Down Enforcement: Inadequate Criminal Liability in State Clean Water Act Programs, 77 Stan. L. Rev. 1303 (2025).
   • Stanford Law School Olaus & Adolf Murie Award.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

1. Wu, Victor Y., and Yusaku Horiuchi. (Forthcoming). “The Supreme Court's Partisan Composition Affects How Americans Evaluate Nominees: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment.” Journal of Law and Courts.
   • 2024 Political Studies Association Early Career Prize.
2. Burke, Caitlin, and Victor Y. Wu. (Forthcoming). “Are Platforms Products? The Legacy of Section 230 in Contemporary Debates on Social Media Liability.” Communication Law and Policy.
3. Wu, Victor Y. (2025). “Messages From Co-Partisan Elected Officials Can Increase Climate Mitigation Intentions Without Changing Climate Beliefs.” Nature Communications.
4. Wu, Victor Y. (2025). “Partisan Energy Preferences in the United States: Republicans Prioritize Price, Democrats Also Consider Renewables.” Energy Research & Social Science.
5. Wu, Victor Y., and Joseph Bafumi. (2024). “Disaffected Partisans Who Want a Third Party Are Just as Polarized.” Party Politics.
   • Coverage: London School of Economics USAPP, The Science of Politics Podcast.
6. Wu, Victor Y., and Richard Howarth. (2023). “Shifting Partisan Public Opinion Towards Community Choice Aggregation Through Outreach and Awareness.” PLOS One.
7. Gupta, Arushi, Victor Y. Wu, Helen Webley-Brown, Jennifer King, and Daniel E. Ho. (2023). “The Privacy-Bias Tradeoff: Data Minimization and Racial Disparity Assessments in U.S. Government.” ACM FAccT.
   • Cited in official recommendation adopted by the National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee.
   • 2023 FAccT Best Paper Award, 2023 Privacy Papers for Policymakers Student Paper Award.
   • Coverage: Stanford Lawyer Magazine, Center for Public Integrity.
8. Wu, Victor Y., John Carey, Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler. (2022). “Legislator Criticism of a Candidate’s Conspiracy Beliefs Reduces Support for the Conspiracy but Not the Candidate: Evidence From Marjorie Taylor Greene and QAnon.” Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review.
   • Coverage: The Washington Post.
9. Grossmann, Matt, Kayla Hamann, Jennifer Lee, Gabrielle Levy, Brendan Nyhan, and Victor Y. Wu. (2021). “Republicans Are More Optimistic About Economic Mobility, but No Less Accurate.” Research & Politics.
10. Chockalingam, Vignesh, Victor Y. Wu, Nicolas Berlinski, Zoe Chandra, Amy Hu, Erik Jones, Justin Kramer et al. (2021). “The Limited Effects of Partisan and Consensus Messaging in Correcting Science Misperceptions.” Research & Politics.

Book Chapters

1. Wu, Victor Y., Daniel E. Ho, Jennifer King, and Robert Weisberg. Forthcoming. “Eyes in the Sky, Gaps in the Law: AI-Powered Remote Sensing, Administrative Enforcement, and the Fourth Amendment.” The Cambridge Handbook for Public Law and Artificial Intelligence.

Selected Works In Progress

Law Review

• “Deregulation by Disaster: Emergency Exemptions of Environmental Law.”
  • Stanford Law School John Hart Ely Prize.
  • Stanford Law School Olaus & Adolf Murie Award.
• “Citizen Suits Against Animal Cruelty.”
  • Stanford Law School John Hart Ely Prize.
  • Brooks Institute Emerging Scholars Fellowship.
• “Market Share Liability for Global Environmental Harms.”
  • Salzburg Global Cutler Fellowship.
• “Recoverable Pollutants: Governing the Thermal Externalities of Artificial Intelligence.”
• “Voluntary Withdrawal: The Coming Crisis of Cooperative Federalism in Environmental Law.”

Peer-Reviewed (Under Review Only)

• Wu, Victor Y., and Naomi Sagan. “LLMs Outperform Humans at Personal Attribute Inference: Implications for Proxy Discrimination Risk and Equal Protection Law.”

Other Publications

1. Astrachan, Isabel, Tejaswita Kharel, Archit Lohani, Anna M. McGuire, Alexander Rivkin, Emi Sakamoto, Bianka Sedmakova et al. (including Victor Y. Wu). 2026. “AI in Criminal Justice: Why Governance Matters and How to Make it Work.” Stanford Law & Policy Lab Reports.
2. Wu, Victor Y., Oliver Edelson, and Allison Weinstock. 2025. “Trusted Climate Data for Effective Policy: A Roadmap for Action.” Stanford Law & Policy Lab Blog.
3. Hayes, David J., Victor Y. Wu, Ainee Ain, Adil Auraghi, Hilary Brumberg, Matías Calderón Cruz, Keala Carter et al. 2025. “Increasing Accessibility to Trusted Climate Performance Data.” Stanford Law & Policy Lab Reports.
   • Coverage: ABC, CBS, Stanford Lawyer Magazine, The Data Foundation, Stanford Law School Today, Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford Report.
4. Wu, Victor Y. 2024. “Centrist third parties like No Labels are not the solution for Americans unhappy with the two-party system.” London School of Economics USAPP.
5. Gupta, Arushi, Victor Y. Wu, Helen Webley-Brown, Jennifer King, and Daniel E. Ho. 2023. “The Privacy-Bias Trade-Off.” Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) Policy Briefs.
6. Wu, Victor Y. 2022. “Marjorie Taylor Greene’s supporters don’t care what critics think.” The Washington Post.