Graduate Program

Arvind Abraham 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…

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. 2022
mtofighidarian at sjd.law.harvard.edu Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University Dissertation “Religion, Courts, and Constitutional…

Kibrom Teweldebirhan
S.J.D. 2022
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. 2022
otamir at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation “Public Law: Formal and Informal” Fields of Research and Supervisors Constitutional and administrative law with Professor Mark…

Gali Racabi
S.J.D. 2022
gracabi at sjd.law.harvard.edu Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations and Cornell Law School Dissertation Law and Power in Uber as a…

Bharath Palle
S.J.D. 2022
bpalle at sjd.law.harvard.edu Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP Dissertation “Wesley Hohfeld and the struggle for a modern legal science” My doctoral…

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. 2022
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. 2022
edouek at sjd.law.harvard.edu Stanford Law School Dissertation Digital Constitutionalism and Techlash Fields of Research and Supervisors Comparative Free Speech: Culture and Communications Technology with…

Elena Chachko
S.J.D. 2022 echachko at law.harvard.edu
Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School Contributor, Lawfare University of California-Berkeley Law School Dissertation Policy and Procedure in the…

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…

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…

Current S.J.D. Candidates Aboutalebi, Zahra
Iran Abraham, Arvind
India Alrwishdi, Deyaa
Syria Bajgiran, Tiran
Canada…

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…

Guanchi Zhang
S.J.D. 2023
gzhang at sjd.law.harvard.edu Vermont Law School Dissertation City Unbound: The Political Economy of City Territory in China, 1949-2012
My dissertation provides a comprehensive…

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 “In Harm’s Way: Value, Order, and Legitimate Punishment in Two Mexico City Street Sex Markets”…