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
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 and…
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
Yangyang Cheng is a Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. Before joining Yale, she worked on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) for more than a decade and was a postdoctoral research…
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…
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…
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…
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 law,…
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 Association…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
Visiting Scholars
Visiting Scholar
Zining Jin is an influential Chinese scholar of Chinese administrative law and environmental law, with a special emphasis on environmental risk regulation and the relationship between public and…
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,…
Visiting Scholar
Since 2014, Professor Fengli Wang has been a scholar at the Hebei Academy of Social Sciences, where she focuses on the sociology of the family and vulnerable groups in China, including gender/…
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…
Visiting Scholar
Daojiong Zha is a Professor in the School of International Studies and the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, Peking University. His work focuses on non-traditional security…
Visiting Scholar
Dr. Hui Zhou is an Associate Professor and the Deputy Director of the faculty of Cyber and Information Law at the Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His main fields of work are…
Non-Resident Affiliated Fellows
Senior Fellow — Foreign Policy, Global Economy and Development, John L. Thornton China Center Brookings Institution
Michael H. Armacost Chair and Fellow — Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center; Interim 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
Director, John L. Thornton China Center; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Brookings Institution
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 a…
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…