Yiran Zhang

Yiran Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Labor and Employment Law at Cornell University Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) School and an Associate Faculty Member of the Cornell Law School. Her research focuses on the governance of care work at the intersection of the often-informal labor markets, the welfare state, and the economic household. Her current project employs a socio-legal approach to examine care subsidy programs in the U.S. She also writes about gender and the boundary of work law.

Yiran’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston University Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, Stanford Law & Policy Review, Cornell International Law Journal, and Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. She has received an S.J.D. and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and an LL.B. from Tsinghua University.