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 on same-sex relations in Republican China and looks into their implementation based on extensive archival research.
Fields of Research and Supervisors
- Sexuality, Gender and the Law with Professor Jeannie C. Suk, Harvard Law School, Principal Faculty Supervisor
- Comparative Family Law with Professor Janet Halley, Harvard Law School
- Chinese Law and Legal History with Professor William P. Alford, Harvard Law School
- Family Sociology; Chinese Family and Same-Sex Relationships with Professor Martin K. Whyte, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Additional Research Interests
- Law and Anthropology
- Law and History
- Critical Legal Study
- Feminist Legal Theory
Education
- Harvard Law School, S.J.D. 2014 – 2021
- Harvard Law School, LL.M. 2013-2014 (requirements fulfilled, degree waived)
- Peking University Law School, China, LL.M. 2002-2005
- Peking University Law School, China, LL.B. 1998-2002
Academic Appointments and Fellowships
- Harvard Law School, 2019-2020, Graduate Program Fellow, Writing TA for Short Writing Projects
- East Asian Legal Studies Research Fellowship, Harvard Law School, 2018
- Harvard Law School, 2017-2018, Graduate Program Fellow, Writing TA for Short Writing Projects
- Cravath Fellow, Harvard Law School, 2017
- Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Summer Research Fellowship, Harvard University, 2016
- Fung Foundation Summer Research Scholarship, Harvard University, 2015
Additional Information
- Languages: English, Chinese (native)
Last Updated: July 24, 2019