Yao Lin
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Assistant Professor of Political Science
Director of the Pre-Law Program
Degrees
- Ph.D., Political Science, Columbia University
- J.D., Yale Law School
- M.A., Philosophy, Peking University
- B.Sc., Biology, Peking University
Biography
Yao Lin, Ph.D., J.D., teaches courses on law, political theory and empirical political science, and directs the Pre-Law Program at University of òòò½ÎÑÊÓƵ.
His research ranges over democratic theory, liberalism, philosophy of political economy, normative jurisprudence, applied ethics, authoritarian politics, social movement, American constitutional law and Chinese politics. His work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, such as the American Political Science Review, the International Feminist Journal of Politics, the Journal of Contemporary China and Philosophy.
Beyond academia, he is also a renowned public intellectual in China, having penned hundreds of political and philosophical essays for the Chinese public, and engaged extensively in political advocacy, legal assistance and community organizing.
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Latest Publications
- (2026) “Is Blood Thicker Than Water(-and-Earth)? Partisanship Geography in Imperial China and the Limits of Quantitative History.” American Political Science Review.
- (2026) “Philosophy as a Normative Discipline.” Philosophy.
- (2025) “Interregimatic Solidarity and Antiauthoritarian Resilience.” International Feminist Journal of Politics.
- (2024) “Brokered Dependency, Authoritarian Malepistemization, and Spectacularized Postcoloniality: Reflections on Chinese Academia.” American Behavioral Scientist.
- (2024) “Linguistic Diversity, Global Epistemic Injustice and Kantian Public Reason.” Asian Journal of Philosophy.
- (2022) “From the Specter of Polygamy to the Spectacle of Postcoloniality.” Politics and Religion.
- (2021) “Beaconism and the Trumpian Metamorphosis of Chinese Liberal Intellectuals.” Journal of Contemporary China.