Paul Gewirtz

Professor Gewirtz, as the founding director of The China Law Center, has worked with his Chinese colleagues on matters of judicial reform, administrative law, regulatory reform, and legal education. The Shanghai courts and the municipal government's Legal Affairs Office, previously reluctant to work with foreign experts, have asked for the Center's assistance in developing reform projects. Institution: American Bar Association, Asian Development Bank, Ford Foundation, Lawyers Committee for Huma

The program focuses on issues related to administration according to law and is a collaboration of Yale University—through its China Law Center—and the China National School of Administration. The participants and presenters examined the U.S. experience of governance and regulation and expanded the participants' understanding of the best U.S. thinking on important issues of law and public policy.