Yan Fang teaches and writes on privacy law, evidence, and law, technology, and society.
Her scholarship focuses on how legal actors and institutions adjust to changes in their informational environments and the impact of those changes on enforcement systems. Drawing on interviews and other qualitative research methods, she theorizes the organizational processes that shape legal actors’ access to and use of evidence. Fang is also part of an interdisciplinary collaboration studying federal courts’ disposition of disability discrimination cases, where she examines how judges evaluate evidence produced by organizations versus individuals.
She earned an A.B. from Harvard College and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, after which she clerked for the Honorable Deborah L. Cook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the Honorable Nancy F. Atlas of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. She has also served as an attorney at the Federal Trade Commission and is currently completing a doctoral dissertation in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at UC Berkeley.
