Yunhang Hong is a Chinese J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School, where he received his LL.M. degree in 2025. Before coming to Yale, he earned dual Bachelor's degrees in Law and History from Peking University, China. He previously worked as a student clerk at a district-level court in China and as an associate at a local Chinese law firm.
Yunhang Hong is interested in East Asian legal history in the late 19th century and early 20th century. His J.S.D. dissertation focuses on the interactions between the ancient Chinese tributary system and Western international law in the late Qing dynasty and the Early Republic period, exploring how the West understood China's traditional tributary system from an international law perspective, and how this understanding and corresponding interactions had in turn influenced the development of international law.
Doctoral Committee
Taisu Zhang (chair), James Q. Whitman (reader), and Samuel Moyn (reader).
Education
J.S.D., Candidate, Yale Law School
LL.M., Yale Law School, 2025
L.L.B., Peking University Law School, 2023
B.A., Peking University, 2023
Contact Information
yunhang.hong@yale.edu