Richard Hua

Richard Hua is a third year law student and student fellow with the Center on the Legal Profession.  He earned his Bachelor of Laws at Peking University in 2021, and is admitted to bar (not holding active license) in China.  He completed an internship with the Honorable Judge Lewis J. Liman of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.  He will join Davis Polk & Wardwell after graduation.
 
With the student fellowship, Richard plans to pursue an empirical study of the racial bias of legal AI by collecting and analyzing federal criminal sentencing and employment discrimination decisions in federal courts.  Previously, he completed an individual writing with Prof. David B. Wilkins on career decision-making of international J.D. students.