Yen-Tu Su
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S.J.D. Candidate
Graduate Fellow, LL.M. Writers Workshop Advisor
| Status: | In Residence |
| Email: | ysu@law.harvard.edu |
Dissertation
Deliberative Competition: A Theoretical Reconstruction of Political Antitrust Jurisprudence
Whether the "political antitrust" approach is the best alternative path for courts to enter the political thicket has attracted a grand debate during recent years. This debate is salient to the development of the law of democracy because it touches upon two fundamental issues in this field of law: our visions of electoral justice and our expectations of judicial review. Certainly, significant moral disagreements exist on the visions of democracy and on the roles of judicial review, and there may be no clear winner in the decades-long struggle between the traditional “rights-based jurisprudence” and the political antitrust paradigm. However, reconstructing political antitrust jurisprudence is not only an imperative to fulfill its politics-empowering idea while avoiding its potential pitfalls, but may also foster mutual understanding or even convergence between competitive and deliberative democrats if we can liberate our imaginations from the ideological or conceptual entrenchments. Exploring the possibilities of such theoretical attempt is the central thesis of my proposed dissertation.
Fields of Research and Supervisors
- Law of Democracy, with Professor Heather K. Gerken, Harvard Law School, Overall Faculty Supervisor
- Theories of Judicial Review, with Professor Richard H. Fallon, Jr., Harvard Law School
- Theories of Democracy: Visions and Institutional Design, with Professor Richard Pildes, New York University School of Law
- Public Choice and Antitrust Analysis, with Professor Einer R. Elhauge, Harvard Law School
Additional Research Interests
- Comparative Constitutional Law
- Political Theories
Education
- Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate 2004-Present
- Harvard Law School, LL.M. 2003
- National Taiwan University, Taiwan, LL.M. 1998
- National Taiwan University, Taiwan, LL.B. 1995
Appointments and Fellowships
- Harvard Law School, 2004-2005, Graduate Program Fellow, LL.M. Writers Workshop Advisor
Representative Publications
- Beyond Nightmare and Hope: Engineering Electoral Proportionality in Presidential Democracies, 30 J. Legis. 205 (2004)
Additional Information
- Personal Resume
- Reading List
- Languages: English, Mandarin, Taiwanese, German (able to read and conduct research)