Yiran Zhang

Yiran Zhang is Proskauer Assistant Professor of Employment and Labor Law at Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations School and a faculty affiliate with Cornell Law School.  She studies the interaction among family, market, and state through the lens of care, other work, and money. Her current projects use a socio-legal approach to examine 1) government programs paying for family caregiving, and 2) the legal classification of non-market labor, such as student and rehabilitational work. She also writes about care migration and social reproduction in China.  Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Minnesota Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Boston University Law Review, the Indiana Law Journal, Law & Social Inquiry, Stanford Law & Policy Review, and Critical Sociology, among others. Dr. Zhang has received an S.J.D. and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School and an LL.B. from Tsinghua University. She's a member of the New York Bar.

Teaching Statement 

I teach classes on labor and employment law, employment discrimination, the law of care work, and gender and political economy.