SJD Profile

S.J.D. Candidate
amorag [at] sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation The Law and Political Economy of Attention The attention of consumers and citizens is a prerequisite for all communications, choices…

S.J.D. Candidate
tzur at sjd.law.harvard.edu
Résumé Dissertation Temporal Dynamics in Judicial Decision-Making Fields of Research and Supervisors Empirical studies of criminal law and…

S.J.D. Candidate
dalrwishdi@sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Toward a Legal Standard to Regulate Non-State Actors’ Exercise of Government Functions My dissertation focuses on regulating non-state actors’ (NSA) exercise of…

S.J.D. Candidate
Graduate Fellow
nplitman @ sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation The Role of Law in Religious Transformation: How Feminists Use State Law to Transform Their Religion In 2016 the…

S.J.D. Candidate
vdazacastillo at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Gender, the Economic Household, and Social Movement Strategy in Two Colombian Environmental Conflicts: Studies in Law and Feminist Political Ecology…

S.J.D. Candidate
aabraham at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Church, Temple & State: Law and Religion in India & The US My dissertation is a comparative constitutional study of…

Yiran Zhang
S.J.D. Candidate
yzhang at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Informality, Migration, and the Economic Household: Childcare and Related Work in China and the United States My dissertation examines the…

Yueduan Wang
S.J.D. 2021
ywang at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation “Laboratories of Democracy and Authoritarianism: Subnational Experiments in the U.S., India, and China” This research compares the Chinese government’s approach…

Marzieh Tofighi Darian
S.J.D. Candidate
Graduate Program Fellow, Teaching Assistant for LL.M. Writing Workshop
mtofighidarian at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation “Religion, Courts, and Constitutional Reasoning: The Efficacy of Constitutional Courts’…

Kibrom Teweldebirhan
S.J.D. Candidate
Graduate Student Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
kteweldebirhan at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation “Labor after the Developmental State: Law, State, and Chinese State…

Oren Tamir
Graduate Fellow & S.J.D. Candidate
otamir at sjd.law.harvard.edu Further details can be found on Oren’s scholar @ Harvard web page: https://scholar.harvard.edu/orentamir/home Dissertation “Public Law: Formal and…

Gali Racabi
S.J.D. Candidate
gracabi at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Law and Power in Uber as a Workplace: How did the law affect the strategies of organizers, regulators, and drivers…

Bharath Palle
S.J.D. Candidate
Graduate Fellow, TA for Short Writing Projects
bpalle at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation “Wesley Hohfeld and the struggle for a modern legal science” My doctoral dissertation…

Pascal McDougall
S.J.D. 2021
pmcdougall at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation “Labor Unions, Firm Governance, and Their Macroeconomic Infrastructure: A Legal Institutionalist Revision of the Economics of Collective Bargaining” Fields of…

Robin Morgan
S.J.D. Candidate
rmorgan at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Creating a Coherent Legal Framework for the Taxation of Financial Instruments One of the overarching goals of many tax systems,…

Yu Luo
S.J.D. 2021
Graduate Fellow, Harvard Law School
yluo at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Alleviation and Gendered Intensification: Regulating Same-Sex Relations in Republican China, 1912–49 My dissertation surveys laws…

evelyn douek
S.J.D. Candidate
edouek at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Digital Constitutionalism and Techlash Fields of Research and Supervisors Comparative Free Speech: Culture and Communications Technology with Professor Martha Minow, Harvard…

Elena Chachko
S.J.D. 2022
Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
Contributor, Lawfare
echachko at law.harvard.edu Dissertation Policy and Procedure in the Age of Individualized Foreign and Security Policy Fields…

Beatriz Botero Arcila
S.J.D. 2021
Berkman Klein Fellow 2019-2020
Harvard Law School, Graduate Program Fellow, TA LLM Writing Workshop
bboteroarcila at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation City Power in the Digital Age:…

ebietti [at] sjd.law.harvard.edu
S.J.D. 2022 Joint Postdoctoral Fellow, NYU School of Law and Cornell Tech
Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard
Visiting Fellow,…

Kwabena Oteng Acheampong
S.J.D. 2021
Graduate Fellow, LL.M. Advisor Dissertation Alliances and Contestations for Gas Governance in Ghana: A New Paradigm for Petroleum-Rich Economies in Africa International policy…

Doaa Abu Elyounes
S.J.D. 2021
Graduate Program Fellow
dabuelyounes at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Policing and Prosecution in the Era of Big Data Every object around us, from the cameras…

Dan Zhou
S.J.D. Candidate
dzhou at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Advocacy at the Margins: Public Interest Lawyering in China Fields of Research and Supervisors Chinese Law with Professor William P.

Guanchi Zhang
S.J.D. Candidate
gzhang at sjd.law.harvard.edu
Further details can be found on https://scholar.harvard.edu/guanchizhang Dissertation Making Borderless City: The Politics of Local Boundaries Change in Economic Transformation My dissertation…

Man Ha Tse
S.J.D. Candidate
mtse at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Predation, Property, & Superiority My dissertation project is an account of the legal architecture of human systems of extractive…

Claudia Veronica Torres Patino
S.J.D. Candidate
Research Assistant, CIDE
ctorrespatino at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Mexican Prostitution as Strategy and Affect: A Historical and Contemporary Socio-Legal Account This doctorate project…

Cem Tecimer
S.J.D. Candidate
ctecimer at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Supreme Court Precedents at Home and Abroad: The Transnational Journey of Brown and Marbury Fields of Research and Supervisors Theocratic Constitutionalism with…

Zhong Xing (“Zhong”) Tan
S.J.D. Candidate
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
ztan at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation “Spheres of Interpersonal Justice: A Framework for Private…

Shelly Simana
S.J.D. Candidate
ssimana at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Toward a Relational Approach for Genome Governance One of the most ambitious scientific undertakings to unlock the human “genetic…

Shani Shisha
S.J.D. Candidate
sshisha at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation History, Custom, and Procedure: Essays on Copyright Policy Fields of Research and Supervisors Copyright Law and Theory with Professor…

Eliel Francisco Sanchez Acevedo
S.J.D. Candidate
esanchez at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Racial Performance under Constitutional Law in Mexico With this dissertation, I will map and interpret the strategic…

Guy Rubinstein
S.J.D. Candidate
John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics
Graduate Fellow, LL.M. Advisor and Teaching Fellow, Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis I
grubinstein at sjd.law.harvard.edu…

Dan Rohde
S.J.D. Candidate
drohde at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation A Legal History of the Bank of Canada, 1934-1967 Fields of Research and Supervisors The Legal Development of…

Juan Camilo Rivera-Rugeles
S.J.D. Candidate
jrivera at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Transitional justice: from human rights to bureaucracy My dissertation will study the transformation of the field known…

Guy Priver
S.J.D. Candidate
gpriver at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Revisiting Local Participation in Global Governance It is widely accepted by international lawyers that global governance should no longer…

Haggai Porat
S.J.D. Candidate
hporat at sjd.law.harvard.edu
Résumé Dissertation Essays on Consumer Law and the Regulation of Consumer Algorithms Fields of Research and…

Matthias Petel
S.J.D. Candidate
mpetel at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Climate Crisis and the European Central Bank: Legal Leeway, Legitimacy, and Institutional Reform In the post-Covid19 economic recovery, a…

Nicolás Parra-Herrera
S.J.D. Candidate
Graduate Fellow, Program on Negotiation, Harvard Law School.
Visiting Professor, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia).
nparra at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation I study alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”)…

Eleftheria Papadaki
S.J.D. Candidate
Harvard Law School, Graduate Program Fellow, Writing Group Advisor, Vice President of the HLS Law and Philosophy Society
epapadaki at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation The Rule…

Ikechukwu Bernard Okafor
S.J.D. Candidate
Graduate Fellow, LL.M. Advisor
iokafor at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Integration of Corporate Financial Markets in Africa through Fintech Platforms: A Sustainable Development Approach This research seeks…

Leeor Ofer
S.J.D. Candidate
Program on Corporate Governance Fellow
LL.M. Advisor
lofer at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Midstream Expropriation: Regulating Unilateral Revisions to the Voting Bargain Struck at the IPO Over…

Jacquelene Mwangi
S.J.D. Candidate
Graduate Program Fellow, LL.M Advisor
jmwangi at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Technology, Culture and Politics Fields of Research and Supervisors Law & Innovation with Professor…

Xiao Ma
S.J.D. Candidate
xma at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Reorganizing China’s National Champions: A State’s Compromise? Fields of Research and Supervisors Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization with Professor Mark…

Maroussia Lévesque
S.J.D. Candidate
Berkman Klein Center Affiliate
mlevesque at sjd.law.harvard.edu
CV
Twitter: @Maroussia_____ Dissertation AI Governance: Towards a Polycentric Model Artificial…

Hye Weon (Rama) Kim
S.J.D. Candidate
hkim at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Globalization of Feminist Legal Thought: A Case of South Korea, 1961-2020 My dissertation chronicles the history of…

Fady Khoury
S.J.D. Candidate
Graduate Fellow, Writing Workshop TA
fkhoury at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Constitutional Design in Divided Societies: Consociational Theory and Its Gaps My dissertation explores constitutional design…

Eric Mawira Gitari
S.J.D. Candidate
Graduate Fellow, LL.M. Writing Advisor
egitari at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation How Background Legal Issues Become Foreground Constitutional Issues: Criminalization of Homosexual Conduct and Rule…