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Professor Paul Gewirtz:
The Center's Director is Professor Paul Gewirtz, the Potter Stewart
Professor of Constitutional Law. Professor Gewirtz is one of America's
preeminent legal scholars. Well known in the legal communities of
both the United States and China, he teaches and writes primarily
in the fields of constitutional law, courts and court procedures,
discrimination law, comparative law, and Chinese law. While on leave
from Yale at the U.S. Department of State as Special Representative
for the Presidential Rule of Law Initiative, he conceived and led
the U.S.-China legal cooperation initiative agreed to by Presidents
Bill Clinton and Jiang Zemin at their 1997-98 Summit meetings. See
"Faculty
Profile"
Jamie P. Horsley:
Jamie P. Horsley, Deputy Director of the Center and Lecturer in
Law at the Yale Law School, is one of the most highly regarded U.S.
lawyers whose practice has focused on China, and she brings unusually
broad experience to the Center's work. She has been the managing
partner of the China offices of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &
Garrison; Commercial Attache in the U.S. Embassies in Beijing and
Manila; Vice President of Motorola International, Inc. and Director
of Government Relations for China for Motorola, Inc.; and a consultant
to The Carter Center on village elections in China. She is the author,
most recently, of “Toward a More Transparent China.”
She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and has an M.A. degree in
Chinese studies from the University of Michigan.
Jonathan Hecht:
Jonathan Hecht, Deputy Director of the Center and Lecturer in Law
at the Yale Law School, is one of the country's leading authorities
on contemporary Chinese law and an important scholar of Chinese
criminal procedure. Before coming to Yale, Mr. Hecht worked for
four years in the Beijing office of the Ford Foundation and taught
Chinese law at Harvard Law School. He has more than ten years experience
as a program officer and consultant on legal reform projects in
China with the Ford Foundation, the United Nations, the U.S. State
Department, and other organizations.
Jeffrey Prescott:
Jeffrey Prescott, Senior Fellow of the Center based in Beijing,
heads the China Law Center operations there while also serving as
a Visiting Scholar at Peking University Law School. He has lectured
widely in China, and is the author most recently of "Social
Order in a Rapidly Changing Society." In 2001-2002, he was
a visiting scholar at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, where
he taught international law. From 1998-2001, he was a staff attorney
at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in New York. He is a 1997
graduate of Yale Law School.
Keith Hand:
Keith Hand, Senior Fellow of the Center and Lecturer in Law at the
Yale Law School, joined the Center in October 2005. Before coming
to the Center, he was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton
& Garrison, and, most recently, was Senior Counsel at the Congressional-Executive
Commission on China. His research and writing has focused especially
on criminal justice, legal constraints on government power, and
property rights in China. He is a graduate of the University of
Washington School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Pacific
Rim Law and Policy Journal.
Concetta S. Fusco:
Concetta Fusco is the Center's Administrative Coordinator.
Xuman Amanda Tian:
Xuman Amanda Tian is the Center's Administrative Coordinator.
Katherine Pothin:
Kathy Pothin is the Center's Administrative Assistant.
Wang Xixin:
Professor Wang Xixin is Associate Professor of Law and Associate
Dean for External Affairs of the Peking University Law School. Professor
Wang is also a Fellow of the Center. One of China's leading younger
scholars, Professor Wang's major fields of research and teaching
at Peking University Law School are administrative law, constitutional
law, and comparative legal studies. He has also been involved in
drafting legislation and consulting on legislative issues in China
as a member of the Administrative Legislation Research Group and
as a Research Consultant for the General Office of the Standing
Committee of China's National People's Congress.
Neysun Mahboubi:
Neysun Mahboubi is a Fellow of the Center. Previously, he was a
Fellow of the Program on Law Teaching and the Center for Chinese
Legal Studies at Columbia Law School. He has worked as a civil litigator
for the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a law clerk for the U.S.
District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Prior to law school,
he worked for an American law firm in their Beijing office. He received
his A.B. in politics and East Asian studies from Princeton University
in 1997, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2001.
John Balzano:
John Balzano is a Fellow of the Center. He has a B.A. in East Asian
Studies from Columbia University, and a J.D. and M.A. in East Asian
Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. John has worked
and studied in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and most recently
spent four months working as a legislative assistant in Tokyo to
Takashi Shinohara in the Japanese House of Representatives. John
speaks Mandarin and Japanese.
Aaron Halegua:
Aaron Halegua is a Research Associate of the Center, based in Beijing.
During 2004-2005, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Peking University
Law School. He received an A.B. in International Relations from
Brown University in 2004.
Tom Kellogg:
Tom Kellogg joined the Center in January 2006 as a Fellow, and is
also serving as a Visiting Scholar at Peking University Law School.
Before joining the Center, he served as the China Country Director
for Internews. He is a graduate of the Harvard Law School, where
he was Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal.
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