The China Law Center

Established in 1999, the Center has become an important institution in the United States working with Chinese counterparts to advance the rule of law in China. The Center’s cooperative projects with leading Chinese experts and institutions are in the areas of judicial reform, administrative law, policy and regulatory reform, criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, and legal education.

In combining practical on-the-ground reform projects with research and education in a mutually reinforcing way, The China Law Center is playing an unprecedented role, and its work has established a significant new channel between the United States and China.

Professor Gewirtz Meets with President Obama on U.S.-China Summit
February 14, 2011
President Obama held an unusual 75-minute meeting with Professor Paul Gewirtz in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 14 to discuss the upcoming Summit meeting between Obama and China’s President Hu Jintao More...

Senior Chinese Government Leaders program
November 2011
The Center played a leading role in the recent Senior Chinese Government Leaders program at Yale University in November, conducted in cooperation with China's Central Party School. The visiting Chinese group was led by Central Party School Vice President and Academic Dean Zhang Bolin and contained senior officials from a variety of national and provincial government entities. This unusually high level program, established this year by Yale University's President Richard Levin, brings senior Chinese government officials to Yale for training related to improving governance in China. More...

Promoting Freedom of Information in China
November 2011
Our Center has been engaged in assisting development of freedom of information in China for nearly a decade. Our work in this area remains exceptionally dynamic as implementation and experience under China’s State Council Open Government Information (OGI) Regulations, which took effect May 1, 2008, continue to deepen. We recently partnered with outstanding Chinese scholars to mark International Right to Know Day 2011 through a series of activities. More…