Li Huang, PhD — Faculty ; Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice ; Department of Criminal Justice, Criminology and Forensics , College of Arts & Sciences .

Dr. Li Huang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, Criminology, & Forensics at Seattle University. She earned her Ph.D. in Criminology, Law and Society from the University of California, Irvine. Before her doctoral studies, she received a J.S.M. from Stanford Law School. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses including law, society and justice, criminal law, trafficking and transnational organized crime, punishment and social theory, and criminal justice legislation and policy.

Dr. Huang’s research interests include white-collar and corporate crime, courtroom decision-making, prosecution, corporate compliance, financial fraud, juror bias, and comparative justice systems. Her work has appeared in Regulation & Governance, Law & Social Inquiry, Crime, Law and Social Change, and Hong Kong Law Journal. She has also contributed to Political Science Quarterly, the Corporate Crime Observatory, the Oxford Business Law Blog, and the Stanford Law School China Guiding Cases Project. Her current research examines the prosecution and punishment of corporate crime, mock juror bias in white-collar crime cases, case prioritization under progressive prosecution, financial crime sentencing, and organized cybercrime in Southeast Asia.

Dr. Huang is a member of the American Society of Criminology, the Western Society of Criminology, and the Law and Society Association. She currently serves as a co-organizer of CRN 41: Economic Crime and Corporate Compliance at the Law and Society Association, an Executive Counselor of the Division of White-Collar and Corporate Crime at the American Society of Criminology, and Counselor-at-Large at the Western Society of Criminology. She is admitted to the New York Bar.