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.
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Directors
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…
Senior Research Scholar in Law; and Executive Director, Paul Tsai China Center (on leave)
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
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center
Dan Wang is one of the leading international experts on China’s technological capabilities, especially semiconductors and clean tech. His work also includes Chinese manufacturing and trade, and U.…
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 China’s national legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC…
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, Fall 2024
Dr. Kai Jin is a nonresident scholar at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, George Washington University. He is also a research fellow at the Yonsei Institute for Sinology, and he served as an…
Visiting Scholar, Fall 2024
Silvia Margot Lindtner (she/her) is Associate Professor in the School of Information and Director of the …
Visiting Scholar, Spring 2025
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, Fall 2024
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…
Visiting Scholar, Fall 2024
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…
Visiting Scholar, Spring 2025
Ying Sun is a professor of law at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, China, where her research and teaching focus on Chinese constitutional law, people’s congresses, judicial reform, and…
Visiting Scholar, Spring 2025
Leifan Wang is an associate professor of international law at Tianjin University School of Law and Center for Biosafety Research & Strategy. Her research focuses on public international law,…
Visiting Scholar, Spring 2025
Nan Yang is a research fellow at the Institute of American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). He is also an associate professor at the School of International Politics and…
Visiting Scholar, Fall 2024
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…
Visiting Scholar, Spring 2025
Jianwei Zhao is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of International Studies, Peking University. Since 2014, he has been affiliated with the Institute of International and Strategic Studies at…
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
Non-Resident Senior Fellows
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…
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…
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…