Welcome to Prof. Weilin Xiao, who joins the School of Legislation as an Assistant Professor.
Weilin Xiao’s tutorial pursuits embrace household regulation, comparative regulation, and authorized historical past, with a deal with the East Asian area. In 2021, Weilin’s paper, “Growth and Restriction: A Comparative Research of Modernization of Household Legal guidelines in Japan and China,” was awarded the Colin B. Picker Graduate Prize by the American Society of Comparative Legislation.
His J.S.D. dissertation, at present present process revision for publication as a monograph, issues the divergent approaches towards modernizing household legal guidelines in Japan and China. Via a comparative perspective, Weilin seeks to reply why Japan and China coordinated authorized transplantation and their very own customary household legal guidelines otherwise, and the way such decisions formed the modernization of these international locations within the twentieth century.
Weilin obtained his J.S.D. diploma from Yale Legislation College in 2024, following his LL.M. diploma earned in 2019. Weilin was a Yale Authorized Historical past Discussion board Fellow in 2023. In the course of the 2022–2023 tutorial 12 months, Weilin was a Yale Fox Worldwide Fellow on the College of Legislation, Waseda College. He spent the 2019–2020 tutorial 12 months as a Visiting Researcher on the Institute for Superior Research on Asia, the College of Tokyo, underneath the Worldwide Dissertation Analysis Fellowship awarded by the Yale MacMillan Heart. Previous to Yale, Weilin accomplished his LL.B. and first LL.M. diploma at Peking College.
