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Ludien Yen
Incoming LLM Candidate, University of CambridgeI am a Taiwan-born legal researcher who enjoys tinkering with hardware as readily as I craft arguments. While at New York University Abu Dhabi, I built sanction-screening roadmaps for the Central Bank of the UAE, web-scraped 50,000 lobbying disclosures to map EU lobbyist influences, and helped deliver the largest global youth energy event at COP28.
In Fall 2025, I will join the Master of Law program at Cambridge to focus on competition and regulatory law. I believe that rules which govern technology platforms now shape democracy as powerfully as legislative bodies do. Whether I am modelling transparency gaps, studying consumer protection rules, or mentoring first-generation students, my goal is consistent: widening access to opportunities through thoughtfully designed institutions.
I am still mapping out my career trajectory, and currently I am charting a path to qualify as a solicitor in England and Wales and engage in litigation and regulatory work.
I have always been drawn to the art of communication, whether that is through the distilled storytelling of award-winning flash fiction, hosting a televised competition, or proudly surviving the Socratic gauntlet in Professor John Sexton’s Relationship between Government and Religion course (2023).
When I am not reading and writing serious stuff, you can find me traversing terrains to photograph landscapes in the Middle East. I also enjoy building Raspberry Pi projects, although compatibility between different versions of SMB3 on my network is still very much a mystery. In these cases, I lace up for a long run – in 2025 I finally resolved a CUPS driver issue after taking time away to run through Singapore’s entire vertical length to Malaysia (MBS to Johor Bahru).
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