Huibin Lin

Huibin Lin

First Name: 
Huibin
Last Name: 
Lin
Title: 
PhD Candidate
Office Location : 
CG 258
Biography : 

Huibin Lin is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. They are a law and society scholar whose research examines the everyday practices of governance, legality, and conflict resolution in contemporary China. Their work explores how affect, discourse, and institutional power intersect in the regulation of social life, with particular attention to the role of policing, mediation, and the affective dimensions of bureaucratic authority.

Grounded in ethnographic methods and close engagement with grassroots institutions, their research contributes to interdisciplinary conversations on legal consciousness, state-society relations, and the affective politics of law.

Education: 
MA (Criminology and Sociolegal Studies), University of Toronto
BA Hons. (Criminology), University of Alberta

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Areas of Interest: 

•    Policing and Mediation
•    Bureaucratic Emotion and Affective Governance
•    State-Society Relations
•    Everyday Legality and Moral Authority

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Dissertation Title: 
Affective Governance in Practice: Mediation, Emotion, and the Everyday State in Contemporary China
Dissertation Supervisors: 
Sida Liu