Since 1999, the Paul Tsai China Center has initiated and steadily expanded collaborative projects with a range of institutions and individuals in China, including leading universities, think tanks, scholars, and lawyers. The Center’s current projects and activities are focused on administrative law, policy and regulatory reform, national legislative procedures and laws, judicial reform, LGBTQ protections, gender equality, criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, and legal education. Our projects promote the Center's mission in a variety of ways.
- Exchanges, cooperation programs, and Track II Dialogues in areas of law and policy to help support China’s reform processes, increase understanding about China in the United States, and further improve China–U.S. relations.
- The Center’s cooperative projects with key institutions and reformers in China provide us with unique opportunities to observe and analyze developments in China’s legal and political system.
- An extensive program of publications, lectures, public testimony in the United States, meetings with government officials, and other outreach activities communicate our insights to policymakers, academics, and the broader public.
- The Center’s support of research and training deepens the understanding of the Chinese legal and political system while increasing capacity in the United States for effective future interaction with China.
In combining cooperative law reform projects with research and education in a mutually reinforcing way, the Paul Tsai China Center is playing a unique role, and its work has established a significant new channel between China and the United States.