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 Dual Logic of Judicial Independence 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. 

Selected Publications

Embedded Supervision: China's Prosecutorial Public Interest Litigation against Government, Regulation & Governance (2024).

State-Sponsored Activism: How China’s Law Reforms Impact NGOs’ Legal Practice, Law & Social Inquiry (2024). (with Ying Xia)

“Detaching” Courts from Local Politics? Assessing Judicial Centralization Reforms in China, The China Quarterly (2021).

The More Authoritarian, the More Judicial Independence? The Paradox of Court Reforms in Russia and China, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (2020).

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