S.J.D. Candidate
yiwang at sjd.law.harvard.edu
Dissertation
Unmaking A Revolution: Social Movements, Markets, and The Taming of Privacy Law in The Post-Watergate Decade
This study asks why the major surveillance revelations of the early 1970s, despite bipartisan outrage and a wave of progressive reform proposals, produced only modest reforms to financial and communications privacy. Departing from scholarship that focuses on “policy entrepreneurs,” it examines how social movements, technological change, and a shifting industry landscape together shaped the legal frameworks for financial and communications privacy that emerged from the post-Watergate decade.
Fields of Research and Supervisors
- History of Civil Liberties and Social Movements with Professor Laura Weinrib, Harvard Law School, Principal Faculty Supervisor
- Law and Political Economy of Banking and Telecommunications with Professor Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School
- Regulation of Financial Institutions with Professor Howell Jackson, Harvard Law School
- Constitutional History of the Warren Court and the Burger Court with Professor Michael Klarman, Harvard Law School
Additional Research Interests
- Criminal Law and Procedure
- Legal History
- Privacy Law
- Banking Law
Education
- Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate 2026 – Present
- Harvard Law School, LL.M. Program 2025–2026 (requirements fulfilled, degree waived)
- National Taiwan University, Taiwan, LL.M. 2024 (Criminal Law and Procedure)
- National Taiwan University, Taiwan, LL.B. 2020
Academic Appointments and Fellowships
- Foundation for Scholarly Exchange (Fulbright Taiwan), 2025-2026, Fulbright Scholarship.
- National Science and Technology Council (Taiwan), 2024-2025, Graduate Research Fellowship.
Additional Information
- Languages: English, Taiwanese Mandarin, Taiwanese Hokkien
Last Updated: June 23, 2026