Yan Fang joined Boston College Law School as an Assistant Professor in 2024. She writes and teaches about privacy law, evidence, and law, technology, and society.
Fang’s scholarship focuses on how legal actors and institutions adjust to changes in their informational environments and the impact of those changes on enforcement systems. Her publications have appeared in or are forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review, Law & Social Inquiry, and the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, among others. She is also part of an interdisciplinary research collaboration studying federal courts’ disposition of disability discrimination cases, where she examines how judges evaluate evidence produced by organizations.
Before returning to academia, Fang enforced consumer protection laws as an attorney for the Federal Trade Commission. She has a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from UC Berkeley, where she also received her J.D. She clerked for Judge Deborah L. Cook of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and Judge Nancy F. Atlas of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
