Leo You Li is a Teaching Fellow and J.S.D. candidate at Stanford Law School. He studies comparative law, courts, and technology, with a focus on legal professions and access to justice in the United States and China. Using mixed methods, his research has examined the governance of judicial data across legal systems, the transformation of access to justice in the digital age across legal cultures, and the manifestation of social inequality in Chinese courtrooms through high-volume debt collection litigation. His current projects continue to explore the design of accessible, equitable, and technology-responsive civil justice systems, with broader inquiries into how those designs may interact with local politics and converge or diverge globally. His work has appeared in Law & Social Inquiry, The Yale Journal of International Law, and South Carolina Law Review, among other journals. He is the recipient of the 2026 Colin B. Picker Graduate Prize from the American Society of Comparative Law for the best paper submitted to the annual Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) Global Conference.

At Stanford Law School, Leo teaches Chinese Law and Governance and is a Civil Justice Student Fellow at the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession. He has been awarded the Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship, a university-wide award for doctoral students who show broad potential for leadership in academia, and the John Hart Ely Prize for outstanding performance in the Empirical Legal Studies seminar. He has served as co-president of the Stanford China Law and Policy Association and co-chair of the Eighth Stanford Law and Society Conference for Junior Researchers. He has also been a visiting scholar at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law and the Singapore Management University School of Law.

Before pursuing the J.S.D., Leo earned a J.S.M. from Stanford Law School as a SPILS Fellow, an LL.M. from University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, and an LL.B. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University Koguan School of Law. He is admitted to practice law in New York and holds the Legal Professional Qualification Certificate of the People’s Republic of China.