Declan Tomlinson
dtomlinson@SanDiego.edu
(619) 260-4179
Assistant Professor
- BS, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- JD, Harvard Law School
- PhD defended, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva
Mengyi Wang studies money, finance, and trade across domestic and international legal orders. Her scholarship sits at the intersection of financial regulation, public law, and international economic law, drawing on legal analysis as well as theoretical and empirical approaches from the social sciences.
Wang’s current work examines the fiscal–monetary divide in economic theory and public law, the legal and economic history of silver, and the judicialization of international trade through domestic courts. Her most recent article, on the Federal Reserve’s emergence as the world’s unofficial central bank, is forthcoming in the Cornell Law Review.
Wang earned a B.S. in chemistry and philosophy from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and has defended a Ph.D. in international law, with a minor in international economics, at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Her professional experience spans patent litigation, international trade, and development. Before joining USD Law, she was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.
Scholarly Work
- Fiscal Versus Monetary, working paper (2026)
- Domestic Judicialization: Tariffs, Courts, and the Future of International Trade, working paper (2026) (with Ruofan Ma)
- The Federal Reserve as the World’s Unofficial Central Bank, Cornell Law Review (forthcoming 2026)