Greetings! 

I'm Yueduan Wang, an Assistant Professor at the Peking University School of Government.

I hold a Juris Doctor (2015) and a Doctor of Juridical Science (2021) from Harvard Law School. My research examines the interplay of law and politics, with a focus on authoritarian constitutions and comparative judicial politics.

My recent book, Experimentalist Constitutions: Subnational Innovation in China, India, and the United States (Harvard University Asia Center, Harvard University Press, 2024), investigates how constitutional frameworks and partisan/factional dynamics shape subnational policy innovation, yielding diverse yet robust models of institutionalized experimentalism across distinct political systems.

I am currently working on my second book, Legality by Decree: The Political Logic of Judicial (In)Dependence Under Authoritarianism (under contract with Cambridge University Press). Using China as a case study, this project analyzes how nondemocratic regimes balance judicial autonomy with strict political control over critical legal outcomes.


You can visit my university profile page (in Chinese) here