JD HSIN

Assistant Professor of Law

Professor Hsin comes to Alabama Law from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, where for four years he served as senior counsel in the Office of the Assistant Secretary. In that role, Hsin oversaw the office’s investigations involving students’ rights during the pandemic and advised on several high-profile rulemakings. Before that, Hsin was a law fellow at the American Law Institute, an attorney in Congress and the U.S. Department of Labor, and he began his career clerking on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He earned his law degree from Harvard University, his PhD in philosophy from Johns Hopkins University, and his bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University. Hsin’s research focuses on education and civil rights, torts, and legal theory.