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The China Law Center was established at Yale Law School in 1999. It has two important missions: first, to assist the legal reform process within China; and, second, to increase understanding of China's legal system outside of China. To these ends, the Center carries out research and teaching, promotes academic exchanges with China, and undertakes a variety of cooperative projects on important issues in Chinese legal reform. Since the Center was launched, it has initiated in-depth cooperative projects with leading Chinese legal experts and institutions in the areas of judicial reform, administrative law and regulatory reform, and legal education. In combining practical on-the-ground law reform projects with research and education in a mutually reinforcing way, The China Law Center is playing a unique role, and its work has established a significant new channel between the United States and China.