Da Lin

Harvard Law School

Da Lin is a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. She is a former law clerk for Judge R. Lanier Anderson III on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals and previously worked as an associate in the Atlanta office of King & Spalding LLP. Her areas of scholarly interest focus on corporate governance, financial institutions, and consumer finance.

Da Lin's Articles

Administrative Law, Civil Rights

Missing Data and Anti-Discrimination Laws

April 2, 2018

In February, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office published an analysis concluding that drivers living in the state’s predominantly minority communities are charged higher auto insurance premiums than similar drivers living in majority white communities. In fact, the study found that experienced drivers with good driving records in the largest minority population areas pay more for…

First Amendment, Labor Law

Janus and Public Pension Funds

September 17, 2018

In last Term’s Janus v. AFSCME, the Supreme Court ruled that union agency fees—payments that all public employees were required to make to labor unions—violated the employees’ First Amendment rights. Since Janus, several commentators have pointed out that agency fees are not the only mandatory payments deducted from public employees’ paychecks. In most states, public…