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Yintao Li

Yintao Li


Educational Background

University of Toronto

Expected graduation date: 2025.01

Sociology Doctoral Candidate


University of California, Berkeley School of Law Expected Graduation Date: 2019.06

Doctor of Laws.


University of California, Berkeley Graduation date: 2015.12

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science



Research Publications (English)


Dissertation.


Li, Sitao. forthcoming. "Face-Work in Chinese Routine Criminal Trials." Law & Society Review 57(2).



Forthcoming. "Face-Work in Chinese Routine Criminal Trials.


Wang, Juan, and Sitao Li. Forthcoming. "Judicial Relations in Local China." Handbook on Local Governance in China. Structures, Variations, and Innovations.



Book Review


Li, Sitao. 2021. The Construction of Guilt in China: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese Injustice. by Mou Yu. the China Quarterly 245: 299-301.


Ongoing Research Projects

Li, Sitao. "Making Sense of Leniency in the Chinese Criminal Justice System." Dissertation Project.


Li, Sitao. "The Undivided Self: Cultural Identity of Chinese Elite Lawyers.


Liu, Sida, and Sitao Li. "How to Do Empirical Legal Studies without Numbers? Lessons from China."


Liu, Sida, and Sitao Li. "Rights in China."


Teaching and Research Assistantships


Teaching Assistant (University of Toronto)


l "Criminological Theory," "Crime and Organization," "Law and Social Theory," "Basic Sociology" .



Research Assistant


l Career Analysis for Lawyers (Prof. S.T. Lau, University of Hong Kong)


l Discourse Analysis of Criminal Trials in South Africa (Prof. Gail Super, University of Toronto)


l Content Analysis of China's Adjudication Website (Prof. Rachel Stern, University of California, Berkeley)



Conference Presentations


2021. "Face-Work in Chinese Routine Criminal Trials." 2021 Law and Society Annual Conference


2022. "Face-Working in Chinese Routine Criminal Trials," "Law, Courts, and Judicial Governance in Comparative Perspective" Academic Research Conference


Awards


2019. S.D. Clark Fellowship, University of Toronto ($5000 CAD)