About Diego Alberto
Diego Alberto Zambrano builds a career at the intersection of federal courts and civil procedure. He arrived in the law world after undergraduate study at the University of Virginia, where he earned a B.A. in Government and History. He went on to Harvard Law School and completed his J.D. in 2013.
After law school he joined Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP as an associate. There he worked on matters that required attention to litigation strategy and appellate briefing. That stint in private practice was brief but formative; it was his first experience inside major, complex litigation teams.
In 2016 he moved into academia as the Harry A. Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School. The role combined classroom teaching with research. He taught courses and led seminars on procedural rules and federal adjudication. Colleagues from that period recall a teacher who posed hard questions and sought clear answers.
Zambrano joined Stanford Law School in 2021 as an associate professor of law. His work at Stanford has centered on federal courts, civil procedure, and appellate practice. He writes and teaches on how courts structure litigation and the role of appellate review in shaping legal doctrine. His scholarship often explores the institutional features of the federal judiciary and the mechanics of procedural rulemaking.
He is admitted to practice in New York and holds admissions in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Outside the classroom he remains active in professional workshops and membership organizations. He serves as chair-elect of the AALS Federal Courts Workshop and participates in the Civil Procedure Workshop. He is a member of the Milgram Inn of Court, the Hispanic National Bar Association, and the American Society of International Law.
Students describe his seminars as rigorous. Other faculty point to his steady engagement in curricular development. He balances doctrinal teaching with practical training for appellate and federal-court practice. He continues to publish and to present papers at conferences aimed at judges, scholars, and practitioners.
He teaches and publishes while maintaining professional ties to appellate practice and federal litigation. He currently practices in an academic capacity at Stanford Law School and continues scholarly work on federal courts and civil procedure.
