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.
People Pane
Director
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…
Faculty, Fellows, & Research Associates
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…
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…
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…
Lecturer in Law (spring term), Senior Research Scholar in Law, and Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center
Peter Dutton is a lecturer in law, 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…
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…
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…
Associate Research Scholar and Senior 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…
Research Associate
Zhengfan Pan is a research associate of the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School based in Beijing. His primary interests are China’s technology law and policy, with an emphasis on AI…
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…
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,…
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…
Jonathan D. Spence Chair Professor of Comparative Literature & East Asian Languages and Literatures and Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center
Pulitzer Finalist and …
Research Scholar in Law and Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center
Changhao Wei is a Research Scholar in Law and Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, where he focuses on China’s national legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), in…
Elihu Professor of History and Global Affairs and Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center
Arne Westad is a scholar of modern international and global history, with a specialization in the history of eastern Asia since the 18th century. He has published 18 books, most of which deal with…
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
Senior Administrative Assistant, Paul Tsai China Center
Severine Debaisieux
Senior Administrative Assistant, Paul Tsai China Center
Concetta Fusco
Senior Administrative Coordinator, Paul Tsai China Center
Visiting Scholars
Visiting Scholar
Wei Da is director of the Center for International Security and Strategy and a professor in the Department of International Relations at Tsinghua University. His teaching and writing focus on U.S…
Visiting Scholar
Mingyue Gao currently practices at Guantao Law Firm. He received his law degree from Fudan University Law School in Shanghai, China. He is an equity partner and currently practices at Guantao Law…
Visiting Scholar
Dr. Bin Ling is a professor of Law at Peking University Law School. He received his Bachelor of Laws (2000) and Ph.D. in Laws (2005) from Peking University Law School. He then pursued advanced…
Visiting Scholar
Lei Wang is a professor of law at Peking University Law School. He received his Ph.D., Bachelor of Laws, and Master of Laws from Peking University Law School. He teaches Chinese Constitutional Law…
Visiting Scholar
Xixin Wang is a professor at Peking University Law School, and Director of Constitutional and Administrative Law Center at Peking University. He is also the founding director of PKU Center for Law…
Visiting Scholar
Dr. Chunsi Wu is director of the Center for American Studies, and a senior research fellow at the Institute of International Strategic and Security Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International…
Visiting Scholar
Zheng Zhu is an assistant professor of constitutional law at the China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing. His research and teaching focus on the constitutional review process,…
Non-Resident Affiliated Fellows
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
Vice President and Director — Foreign Policy Senior Fellow — Foreign Policy, Project on International Order and Strategy Brookings Institution
Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
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