Contours of the Digital Self: Data, Capital, and the Struggle for Justice

Cheng-Yi Huang

Cheng-Yi Huang

Research Professor and Acting Deputy Director, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica

Cheng-Yi Huang is a Research Professor and Acting Deputy Director of the Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, and holds a joint appointment as Professor at the Institute of Law for Science and Technology, National Tsing Hua University. He received his J.S.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where he studied under Professor Cass R. Sunstein. His research spans comparative constitutional politics, U.S. and comparative administrative law, law and behavioral economics, cost-benefit analysis, transitional justice, and Taiwanese legal history. He has long been interested in how state power is exercised and constrained, and how it changes across time and institutional contexts. He is the editor of Constitutionalizing Transitional Justice (Routledge, 2022) and of two volumes on administrative regulation and litigation (2010 and 2017) published by Academia Sinica, co-editor of Comparative Perspectives on Administrative Procedure (Carolina Academic Press, 2017), and a contributor to The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Administrative Law. His articles have appeared in Chinese- and English-language journals and edited volumes, including Law & Social Inquiry, the Washington International Law Journal, and the National Taiwan University Law Journal. He has also lectured at the Academy for the Judiciary, the Judges Academy, the National Academy of Civil Service, and the Civil Service Development Institute. His recent research focuses on assessing the rationality of large-scale state projects, national security and executive power, and the structural transformation of U.S. administrative law. He continues to serve as a board member of the Taiwan Association for Truth and Reconciliation and remains engaged in public work on transitional justice.

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