Neysun Mahboubi was a Fellow of the Center, and Tutor-in-Law at Yale Law School. He is presently Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law. Previously, he worked as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, and as a law clerk to the Hon. Douglas P. Woodlock of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. At Yale, he led the Reading Group on Contemporary Chinese Law, co-directed the Social Science Workshop on Contemporary China, and organized the Graduate Program's Global Conversations Series and Works-in-Progress Symposium. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia Law School.
John Balzano
John Balzano was a Fellow of the Center from 2005 to 2008. He is currently an Associate at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP in New York. Prior to joining the Center, he spent four months working as a legislative assistant in Tokyo to Takashi Shinohara in the Japanese House of Representatives. He received his J.D. and M.A. in East Asian Studies from Washington University in St. Louis, and B.A. in East Asian Studies from Columbia University. He has worked and studied in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. He speaks Mandarin and Japanese.
Tom Kellogg
Tom Kellogg was a Senior Fellow of the Center and Lecturer-in-Law at Yale Law School from 2006-2008. Prior to that, he worked for a wide range of non-governmental organizations in the United States, Asia, and the Middle East, focusing on human rights and the development of the rule of law. His research interests include the rule of law in China and Hong Kong, judicial protection of rights, media regulation, and civil law reform. His work has appeared in the Columbia Journal of Asian Law, the Harvard Human Rights Journal, and the Fordham Journal of International Law (forthcoming). He is a 2003 graduate of the Harvard Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal.
Ira Belkin
Ira Belkin was a Senior Fellow of the Center for 2004-2005. He is currently Director of the Trade Facilitation Office of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Prior to joining the Center, he served as Resident Legal Advisor for the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Before that, he was a Federal Prosecutor with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Rhode Island and the Eastern District of New York. He received his J.D. from New York University School of Law, and his M.A. in Chinese Studies from Seton Hall University.
Andrea Worden
Andrea Worden was a Center Fellow for 2003-2004. She is currently Counsel for O’Melveny & Myers in Washington D.C. Prior to joining the Center, she was Senior Counsel for the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. She previously worked for O'Melveny & Myers and the U.S. Department of Justice, and was a law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and the Alaska Supreme Court. She received her J.D. and an M.A. (in modern Chinese history) from Stanford University, and B.A. from Yale University.
Donald Clarke
Professor Clarke was a Fellow in residence at the Center during 2001 and again in 2003. He is currently Professor of Law at The George Washington University. Prior to that, he taught at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and practiced for three years at a major international firm with a large China practice. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and has published extensively in journals such as the China Quarterly and American Journal of Comparative Law on subjects ranging from Chinese criminal law and procedure to corporate governance. His recent research has focused on Chinese legal institutions and the legal issues presented by China’s economic reforms.
Stephen Hsu (Xu Chuanxi)
Professor Hsu was a Center Fellow for 2001-2002. His major area of research was civil law. He is currently Dean and Professor of Law of the School of American and Comparative Law at the China University of Political Science and Law. Prior to his fellowship, he was visiting researcher at New York University Law School and an attorney-at-law at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University, and master's degree in International Politics and Organizations from Peking University.
Research Associates
Aaron Halegua
Aaron Halegua was a Research Associate of the Center during 2005-2006, based in Beijing. During 2004-2005, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Peking University Law School. He received an A.B. in International Relations from Brown University in 2004. He is currently a J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School.
Jenny Lah
Jenny Lah was a Research Associate of the Center during 2006-2007, based in Beijing. During 2005-2006, she was a Princeton in Asia Teaching Fellow at the China Foreign Affairs University. From 2003-2005, she was a Fellow and Consultant with the United Nations Development Fund for Women in New York. She received a B.A. in History and Political Economy of Industrial Societies from the University of California at Berkeley in 2003. She is currently a master's candidate at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Grace Hsieh, Research Associate
Grace Hsieh was a Research Associate of the Center during 2007-2008, based in Beijing. She spent summer 2005 as a Yale University Light Fellow in Beijing and worked at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide in Beijing during the summer of 2006. She received a B.A. with distinction in humanities and international studies from Yale University in 2007. She is currently a member of the consulting division at BDA (China) Limited in Beijing.
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