Yiran Zhang

Yiran Zhang is Proskauer Labor and Employment Law Assistant Professor at Cornell University’s Industrial and Labor Relations School and a faculty affiliate with Cornell Law School. Her research focuses on the governance of care work, the boundary of work law, and gender and informality. Her current projects employs a socio-legal approach to study public care programs in the U.S. and the employee classification of non-market labor exchanges. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in UCLA Law Review, Boston University Law Review, the Indiana Law Journal, Stanford Law & Policy Review, Cornell International Law Journal, 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.