Ziqi Wang is a J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School, where he earned his LL.M. in 2025. Prior to Yale, he received his LL.B. from China University of Political Science and Law in 2021 and his first LL.M. from Tsinghua University in 2024. He also participated in exchange programs at UC Berkeley in 2019 and Sciences Po in 2023. From 2021 to 2024, Ziqi served on the editorial board of the Tsinghua China Law Review.
Ziqi’s research interests include legal history, constitutional law, comparative law, and political philosophy. His doctoral work at Yale, situated at the intersection of legal and intellectual history, explores how the reception of Rousseau’s social contract theory has shaped Chinese intellectuals’ understanding of popular sovereignty and influenced Chinese constitutional texts since 1898.
Doctoral Committee
Professor James Whitman (chair), Taisu Zhang (reader), Samuel Moyn (reader)
Education
LL.M., Yale Law School, 2025
LL.M., Tsinghua University, 2024
LL.B., China University of Political Science and Law, 2021
Contact Information
ziqi.wang.zw472@yale.edu