Austin Peters is a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago. His research uses artificial intelligence (e.g., large language models), machine learning, and other data science tools to study various topics within civil procedure and statutory interpretation. His scholarship has appeared in law reviews (e.g., Northwestern University Law Review and University of Pennsylvania Law Review) and computer science proceedings (e.g., DEEM and NeurIPS).

Before starting as a Bigelow Fellow, Austin clerked for Judge Kevin C. Newsom of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

Austin holds a PhD in Political Science and a JD from Stanford University. He earned a BA in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego.