Yali Peng

Yali Peng is a J.S.D. candidate at University of Chicago Law School, where she also received her LL.M. degree ('17). Her research focuses on criminal justice, law and economics, and judicial behavior. She holds a LL.B. degree, summa cum laude, at Tsinghua University ('16), where she was an editorial board member of Tsinghua China Law Review.

She has clerked at the Supreme People's Court of China. Her award-winning undergraduate dissertation examines the factors influencing the sentencing of larceny based on linear regression models. She hopes to reshape people's understanding of sentencing and change the sentencing scheme to better represent the marginalized people.

Education

• MSc, Criminology and Criminal Justice University of Oxford (2019 - 2020)
• Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.) *University of Chicago Law School *(2017 - 2022)
• Master of Laws (LL.M.) University of Chicago Law School (2016 - 2017)
• Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) Tsinghua University (2012 - 2016)
• Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA Tsinghua University (2013 — 2016)
• The University of Hong Kong (2014 — 2014)
• Summer School Harvard University (2014 — 2014)

Companies

• Assistant Professor Renmin University of China (2022)
• Summer Intern Paul Hastings (2015 — 2015)
• Intern Supreme People's Court of P.R.C (2014 — 2015)