LI You (Leo) is a J.S.D. candidate at Stanford Law School and a Graduate Student Fellow at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford. He adopts empirical methods to explore the intersection of legal technology, access to justice, and judicial behaviors. His working projects include empirical and comparative studies on the digital transformation of courts, litigation inequality in consumer debt disputes, and legal and economic reforms in China, among others. He has presented research at the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS), Annual Meeting of Law and Society, among other academic settings. His articles have been published in Chinese journals including the China Law Review and SJTU Law Review. He has been a visiting researcher at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law (2024 summer).

During his time at Stanford, Leo has been awarded the Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship, the John Hart Ely Prize for outstanding performance in the Empirical Legal Studies seminar, among other honors. He has worked as a teaching assistant for Prof. Amalia Kessler and a research assistant for the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession. He has served as the co-president of Stanford China Law and Policy Association, the co-chair of the Eighth Stanford Law-and-Society Conference for Junior Researchers, and the student ambassador of the Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions (SCCEI).

Before pursuing the J.S.D., Leo obtained 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 into the New York Bar Association and holds the Legal Professional Qualification Certificate of the People’s Republic of China.