S.J.D. Candidate
yjin at sjd.law.harvard.edu
Dissertation
Rights Without Redistribution
My project investigates how international human rights law was historically structured to bifurcate negative civil-political rights and affirmative socio-economic rights between 1945 and the 1960s. It traces how U.S. constitutional doctrines interacted with the evolving architecture of international legal norms to shape and delimit the normative scope of international human rights in ways that accommodated and structured prevailing political-economic conditions across both domestic and international contexts.
Fields of Research and Supervisors
- American Constitutional Law and History with Professor Michael J. Klarman, Harvard Law School, Principal Faculty Supervisor
- Law and Political Economy with Professor Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School
- History of International Law with Professor Idriss Fofana, Harvard Law School
- Comparative Law and Legal History with Professor William P. Alford, Harvard Law School
Additional Research Interests
- Legal History
- Comparative Law
- Constitutional Law
- History of International Law
- Law and Political Economy
Education
- Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate, 2025-Present
- Harvard Law School, LL.M. Program, 2024-2025 (requirements fulfilled, degree waived)
- Peking University, Bachelor of Laws, 2021
Academic Appointments and Fellowships
- Harvard Law School, 2024, F.Y. Chang Scholar
Last Updated: June 13, 2025