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The Paul Tsai China Center’s faculty, fellows, and permanent staff direct and guide our many activities and projects, both at Yale Law School and in China. Each semester the Center also welcomes Visiting Scholars from all over China. Student Fellows are involved with many aspects of our work, collaborating with China Center staff on a variety of legal reform and U.S.–China relations projects.

Read a list of our former fellows and visiting scholars.

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Directors

Paul Gewirtz
Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law and Director, Paul Tsai China Center

Paul Gewirtz is the Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale Law School. He is also the Director of Yale’s Paul Tsai China Center. Professor Gewirtz teaches and writes in various…

Robert D. Williams
Senior Research Scholar in Law; and Executive Director, Paul Tsai China Center

Robert D. Williams is a Senior Research Scholar in Law and the Executive Director of the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School, where he focuses on U.S.-China relations and Chinese law…

Faculty, Fellows, & Research Associates

Nicholas Bequelin
Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow

Dr. Nicholas Bequelin is a Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center.

A prominent international human rights expert, Dr. Bequelin has spent most…

Yangyang Cheng
Research Scholar in Law and Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center

Dr. Yangyang Cheng is a Research Scholar in Law and Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, where her work focuses on the development of science and technology in China and U.S.‒China…

Jeremy L. Daum
Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center

Jeremy Daum is a Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center. He is based in Beijing, and has more than a decade of experience working in China on collaborative…

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Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center

Peter Dutton is a Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow in the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. Before joining the Center, he was professor of international law in…

Jamie Horsley
Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center

Jamie Horsley is a Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow of the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. Her project work and research revolve primarily…

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Research Scholar in Law, and Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center

Darius Longarino (龙大瑞) is a Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School and a Senior Fellow of the Paul Tsai China Center. Prior to joining the Center, he worked for the American Bar…

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Associate Research Scholar and Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center

Karman Lucero joined the Center in July 2018, after working for the Data & Society Research Institute and Microsoft’s US Government Affairs Office, where he focused on issues related to…

 Mira Rapp-Hooper
Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center (on leave)

Mira Rapp-Hooper is a Senior Fellow at Yale’s Paul Tsai China Center. She studies and writes on US-China relations and national security issues in Asia. Dr. Rapp-Hooper was formerly a Senior…

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Senior Research Scholar, Paul Tsai China Center

Stephen Roach is a Senior Research Scholar of the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. He joined the Yale faculty in 2010 after 30 years at Morgan Stanley, mainly as the firm’s chief…

Moritz Rudolf
Research Scholar in Law and Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center

Dr. Moritz Rudolf is a Research Scholar in Law and Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, where he focuses on the implications of China’s rise for the international legal order. In…

Samm Sacks
Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center

Samm Sacks is a Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. Her research examines China’s information and communications technology (ICT) policies,…

Susan A. Thornton
Visiting Lecturer in Law (spring term) and Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center

Susan A. Thornton is a retired senior U.S. diplomat with almost three decades of experience with the U.S. State Department in Eurasia and East Asia. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer in Law and…

Dan Wang
Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center

Dan Wang is one of the leading international experts on China’s technical capabilities, especially semiconductors and clean tech.  His work also includes Chinese…

Changhao Wei
Associate Research Scholar in Law and Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center

Changhao Wei is an Associate Research Scholar in Law and Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, where he focuses on Chinese legal reform and China’s national legislature, the National…

Taisu Zhang
Professor of Law

Taisu Zhang is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School and works on comparative legal and economic history, private law theory, and contemporary Chinese law and politics. He is the author of two…

Staff

Marie Carrano
Marie Carrano
Senior Administrative Assistant, Paul Tsai China Center
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Severine Debaisieux
Senior Administrative Assistant, Paul Tsai China Center
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Concetta Fusco
Senior Administrative Coordinator, Paul Tsai China Center

Visiting Scholars

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Visiting Scholar

Dr. Kai Jin is the deputy director and senior fellow of the Center for American Studies at the Global Governance Institution, a Beijing-based think tank, and a non-resident scholar at the Sigur…

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Visiting Scholar

Silvia Margot Lindtner (she/her) is Associate Professor in the School of Information and Director of the …

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Visiting Scholar

Jiefeng Lu is an associate professor at the University of International Business and Economics School of Law in Beijing, where his research and teaching focus on employment discrimination law and…

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Visiting Scholar

Dr. Chenghao Sun is a fellow and head of the U.S.-Europe program at the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS), Tsinghua University, and council member of the Chinese Association of…

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Visiting Scholar

Feng Zhang is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at Tsinghua University’s Center of International Security and Strategy (CISS). His research spans Chinese foreign policy, international…

Non-Resident Affiliated Fellows

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Director – John L. Thornton China Center, Senior Fellow – Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center, Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies, Brookings Institution
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Vice President and Director — Foreign Policy Senior Fellow — Foreign Policy, Project on International Order and Strategy Brookings Institution
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Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
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Senior Fellow Emeritus in Foreign Policy, The Brookings Institution; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Emeritus of Political Science and William Davidson Professor Emeritus of Business Administration, University of Michigan

Non-Resident Senior Fellows

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Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center

Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of the Paul Tsai China Center.  She is Senior International Partner at the WilmerHale law firm in Washington, D.C., and has been…

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Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center

Stephen Hadley '72 is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow of the Paul Tsai China Center. He is a principal of RiceHadleyGates LLC, an international strategic consulting firm, and has been a participant…

Jake Sullivan
Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center (on leave)

Jake Sullivan is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow (on leave) at the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. He served in the Obama administration as national security adviser to Vice President Joe…