
Yiran Zhang
Assistant Professor of Labor & Employment LawOverview
Yiran Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Labor and Employment Law at Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations 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 projects study how U.S. welfare programs, including Medicaid and childcare subsidies, impact home-based care. Her other research explores how law and informality impact migrant care workers’ workplace strategies in Asia. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Indiana Law Journal, Stanford Law & Policy Review, and Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. She teaches employment and labor law and a writing seminar on the law of care work.
Dr. Zhang has received an S.J.D. and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and an LL.B. from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. She's a member of the New York Bar.
Teaching Statement
My teaching interest includes labor and employment law, care work, and gender, race, and work law.
Publications
Journal Articles
- Yiran Zhang. . The Care Bureaucracy, Indiana Law Journal . 99(Forthcoming).
- Yiran Zhang. 2023. Subsidizing the Childcare Economy, Stanford Law & Policy Review . 34(1):67-130.
- Yiran Zhang. 2022. Rethinking the Global Governance of Migrant Domestic Workers: The Heterodox Case of Informal Filipina Workers in China, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal . 36(3):963-1015.