Student

Alex Huang

Alex Huang is the Lloyd M. Robbins JSD Fellow at UC Berkeley School of Law. Huang’s research focuses on bankruptcy law, corporate law, law and economics, and judicial behavior, with a particular emphasis on applying natural language processing to explore the evolutionary patterns of opinions and contracts. Huang teaches Law and Economics I&II, Sociology of Law, and Law in Chinese Society as a lecturer, tutor and graduate student instructor at the legal studies program and the school of law. Huang’s work has been published in both Chinese and English. He...

Allen Micheal Wright

BELS Fellow

Allen Micheal Wright is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at UC Berkeley, where he studies organizations, law and urban redevelopment. His dissertation is a historical case study of the emergence of private-public partnerships for urban redevelopment, with a focus on urban renewal and land banking. By process tracing the case of urban redevelopment in Detroit from 1950 to 2020, he argues that the emergence of land banking is linked to the demise of urban renewal. He tracks the key moments of this gradual transformation of legal institutions and organizational forms across the local field of...

Alonzo Akerman

Alonzo Ackerman is a Ph.D. student in the Sociology department at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on the transition of teachers' organizations from professional associations to labor unions, and the impact of this on the labor regulation laws these organizations pursue. He holds an MA in sociology from Berkeley and a bachelor's degree in sociology.

Bruno Anaya Ortiz

PhD Candidate
Rhetoric

Bruno Anaya Ortiz is a fifth-year student in the Rhetoric Department. His work is at the intersection of legal studies, political theory, and colonial studies. His dissertation analyzes Spanish-American identity formations in Mexico and the US. In Mexico, he analyzed how courts and the constitution define national identity in contradistinction to both ideas of “Indigenous peoples” and the “West.” He argues that this process re-articulates colonial categories that originated in Spain’s evangelical mission. In the US, he studies the changing vocabularies in which the law has incorporated...

Andrea Clark Gomez

Andrea Clark Gomez is a third-year student at Berkeley Law. She was born in Venezuela and has lived in Argentina, Saudi Arabia, and Texas; these transnational experiences sparked her research interests in human rights and transnational feminism. As a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, Andrea was trained as an activist-ethnographer and published “‘Eso Ya No Se Consigue’: The Effects of Economic Shortages on Women’s Everyday Lives in Venezuela.” Andrea obtained her Master's in Latin American Studies at the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies...

Caylee Hong

Caylee Hong is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation examines urban oil production in the Los Angeles Basin. She previously worked as a project finance attorney in New York

Bonnie Cherry

Bonnie Cherry is a PhD Candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Her work explores the martial origins of the administrative state, and how the management of Indian affairs shaped civilian administrative policies and enforcement mechanisms from the earliest days of the nation. Her dissertation explores how extraordinary security measures taken against Native peoples and their lands inspired administrative law and organizational practices, which in turn informed broader security policies. Specifically, her work explores how the...

Claire Wrigley

Claire Wrigley is a PhD candidate in modern European history, specializing in Britain and its empire. Her dissertation, Family, Nation, Empire: An Imperial History of Public Housing in Britain, 1890-2017, argues that the law of public (council) housing was a domestic expression of the politics of empire and decolonization as it was designed to produce stable, productive working-class families who took a particular form, that of the white, heterosexual nuclear family. Drawn from research at over fifteen local and national archives around the UK, her work has been supported by...

Douglas Sangster

Douglas Sangster is a Ph.D. Candidate at U.C. Berkeley School of Law. He studies the history of health care, disability activism, and law in the United States during the twentieth century. He received funding from the Gottenberg Scholarship Fund (twice) and the Selznick Scholarship Fund while in law school. Douglas has worked for the Securities and Exchange Commission as an Honors Intern and he has volunteered as a student co-director of the Workers Rights' Disability Law Clinic. He earned a law degree from U.C. Berkeley School of Law, a master's degree...

Jiahui Duan

JSD Candidate
JSD

Jiahui Duan is a JSD candidate in the School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a Lloyd M. Robbins Fellow. Her current research studies workplace sexual harassment issues in China, aiming to understand the development of workplace sexual harassment issues in Chinese society and explore a potential anti-sexual harassment route in the emerging economy and political context such as China’s. Her research is built on substantial fieldwork where she conducts in-depth interviews with individual employees who have been harassed and investigates how they...