Lei Shi

Email:

lei.shi.ls2298@yale.edu

Academic Year:

2019-20

Direction:

To Yale

Exchange Partners:

Fudan University

Project Title:

Access to Justice: Litigation Costs and Lawyers in the English Law Reform (1750-1875)

Lei Shi is a Ph.D. student at the Fudan University Law School where he also received an LL.M. in Legal History. During recent years, he got the Award for Outstanding Student several times and the National Scholarship for Postgraduate Students. His research field includes the history of common law, comparative legal history, and civil procedure law. He is currently working on exploring the essential role lawyers played in affecting the allocation of judicial resources and the accessibility of justice in 18th and 19th-century England. With the methods of institutional economics and social statistics, he aims to further the understanding of the complex tensions among litigation justice, judicial efficiency and social practice. Before commencing his doctoral research, he has finished the master dissertation titled “Lawyer’s Fees in Eighteenth-Century England -- Exemplified by the Action of Debt in the Court of Common Pleas” and he also worked as a student editor of Fudan Law Review and a teaching assistant for the Chinese Legal History course and the Foreign Legal Institutions course.