Yen-Tung Lin

He/him

ytl@berkeley.edu

Doctoral Candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy (ABD)

I am interested in the ways in which human rights law shapes domestic institutions and empowers (or not) activists. My current project investigates how human rights law facilitates reforms concerning solitary confinement in Taiwan, Denmark, and the US.

Before coming to Berkeley, I worked in a human rights organization in Taiwan.

B.A., M.A. National Taiwan University

Publications

“Human rights upsurge”: contentious coupling and the limitations of solitary confinement reform in Taiwan
Law & Society Review (2025), 59, 584–618 
doi:10.1017/lsr.2025.10043