Yan Fang
Assistant Professor
Biography
Yan Fang joined Boston College Law School in 2024. Her scholarship focuses on how organizations mediate the relationship between law and information—collecting, processing, and producing evidence upon which legal institutions depend. Her work has been published in the Law & Society Review , Law & Social Inquiry , and the Virginia Law Review . She is also part of a research collaboration studying federal courts’ disposition of disability discrimination claims in employment adjudications. Their findings have been published or are forthcoming in the New York University Law Review and Social Science & Medicine . Before entering academia, Fang enforced consumer protection laws as an attorney for the Federal Trade Commission. She also clerked for Judge Deborah L. Cook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and Judge Nancy F. Atlas of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Fang has a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, where she also earned her J.D. She received an A.B. in History and Literature from Harvard College.