J.S.D. Student Profiles

Eddy Yen-Ting Lin

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Contact:  eddylin@berkeley.edu

Faculty Advisor:  Laurent Mayali

Dissertation Topic:  Regulating AI-Generated Political Speech: Constitutional Legitimacy and Policy Challenges

Research Interests:  Constitutional law; law and technology; law and democracy; artificial intelligence regulation; platform governance; communication policy

Previous Degrees:  Master of Arts in Journalism, National Taiwan University;  LL.M, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; LL.B., National Taiwan University

Gunn Jiravuttipong

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Contact:  g.jiravuttipong@berkeley.edu

Dissertation Committee:  Katerina Linos (Chair), Laurent Mayali, Prasad Krishnamurthy

Dissertation Topic:  The Diffusion of Digital Platform Regulations

Research Interests:  Antitrust, law, and technology; law and economics; international law; comparative law; law and society; geopolitics and law

Previous Degrees:  LL.M., University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; LL.B., Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand

Helen Jennings

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Contact:  helenjennings@berkeley.edu

Dissertation Committee:  Kathryn Abrams (Chair), Christopher Kutz, Laurel Fletcher, Robert Howse (New York University School of Law)

Dissertation Topic:  Suffer, Little Children: A Transitional Justice Approach to the Child Sexual Abuse Crisis in the Catholic Church

Research Interests:  public international law; transitional justice; international human rights

Previous Degrees:  LL.M. (International Legal Studies),  New York University School of Law; B.A. (Hons), LL.B., University of Cambridge, U.K.

Mahwish Moazzam

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Dissertation Committee:  Kathryn Abrams (Chair), Laurent Mayali, David Oppenheimer

Dissertation Topic:  The Politics of Law and Culture: Domestic Violence Legislation and Gender Justice in Comparative Perspective

Research Interests:  Public international law; comparative law; international human rights; law and technology 

Previous Degrees: LL.M., University of California, Berkeley, School of Law;  Masters in Political Science, University of the Punjab, Pakistan; LL.B., University of the Punjab, Pakistan

Min Li

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Contact:  emily1501111033@berkeley.edu

Dissertation Committee: Prasad Krishnamurthy (Chair), Abhay Aneja, Adam Badawi

Dissertation Topic:  Does Harsh Liability of Securities Service Agencies Benefit the Chinese Bond Market?

Research Interests:  Financial regulation; business law

Previous Degrees:  LL.M., University of California, Berkeley, School of Law; Ph.D. (Economic Law), Peking University, China; Masters in Law, Chinese University of Political Science and Law, China;  LL.B., Xi’an Jiao Tong University, China 

 

Sharaban Tahura Zaman

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Contact:  sharabantahura1987@berkeley.edu

Dissertation Committee:  Daniel A. Farber (Chair), Eric Biber, Laurent Mayali, Cinnamon P. Carlarne (Albany Law School) 

Dissertation Topic:  Energy Transition under the Paris Agreement: Assessing Legal Pathways

Research Interests:  Exploring global climate governance and its interaction with state behavior on energy transition. My research also examines how economic interests and political dynamics shape legal responses to decarbonization efforts.

Previous Degrees:  Specialized LL.M. in Global Environment and Climate Change, University of Edinburgh School of Law, U.K.; LL.M., University of Dhaka School of Law, Bangladesh; LL.B. (Honors), University of Dhaka School of Law, Bangladesh