Yuping Lin is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
She received her J.S.D. and LL.M. from Yale Law School and her LL.B. and LL.M. from Peking University. She was affiliated with the Yale Law School Information Society Project and Paul Tsai China Center. Her research lies at the intersection of technology law, administrative law, and political economy. She examines the evolving relationship between states and digital platforms, especially the interaction between public authority and private technological infrastructure. Her work argues that governments increasingly rely on platforms to perform public functions, while platforms simultaneously reshape state institutions and governance priorities. This reciprocal process blurs the boundary between the public and private spheres and transforms contemporary political economy. Drawing on comparative analysis of the United States and China, her research explores whether and how both capitalist and socialist systems are converging toward a structurally similar mode of governance in which digital platforms serve as essential social infrastructure and states increasingly operate through, rather than simply regulate, digital intermediaries. Her recent scholarship includes work on platform-state relations, algorithmic governance, data rights, and the transformation of courts and administrative institutions in the digital age. Her doctoral dissertation, Informational Socialism, examines the political economy and legal architecture of data and digital governance in China. Before joining CUHK, Professor Lin worked as a law clerk at the Supreme People’s Court of China and has held research and law clerkship positions in Chinese government institutions. Her scholarship has been published and is forthcoming in leading journals in the fields of constitutional and administrative law, digital technology, political economy, and comparative law.