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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…

Rush Doshi
Brookings-Yale Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center (on leave)

Rush Doshi is the Brookings-Yale Fellow (on leave) at the Brookings Institution and Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. He is also Special Advisor to the CEO of the Asia Group, Research…

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Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow

Matt Ferchen is a Senior Research Scholar in Law and Senior Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. He focuses on Chinese economic statecraft and economic influence as well as broader…

Jamie Horsley
Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center

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

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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
Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center

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

Susan A. Thornton
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 Senior Fellow at the Yale…

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…

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Research Associate

Krystal Chen Zeng is a Research Associate of the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School based in Beijing. She is concurrently pursuing her Ph.D. at China’s University of Political Science and…

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. Lu Liu is a lecturer in the Law School of China Women’s University in Beijing, where she teaches public international law and international economic law.  She received her LL.M from…

Dan Wang
Visiting Scholar

Dan Wang is the technology analyst at Gavekal Dragonomics, the Beijing-based economics research firm. Wang has focused on understanding China's technology progress — based in Hong Kong, Beijing,…

Ying Xin
Visiting Scholar

Ying Xin is the CEO of Xiaowusheng, a platform that provides gender-affirming mental health counseling. Previously, Xin served as the director of the Beijing LGBT Center, which was the foremost…

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Visiting Scholar

Feng Zhang is Professor of International Relations at the South China University of Technology. His research falls into three areas: Chinese grand strategy and foreign policy, Chinese…

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…