Faculty, Senior Fellows & Staff

Professor Paul Gewirtz, Director
Paul Gewirtz, Director of The China Law Center, is a leading American legal scholar who teaches and writes in a variety of fields, including constitutional law, courts and court procedures, antidiscrimination law, comparative law, and Chinese law.  Professor Gewirtz is well known in the legal communities of both the United States and China.  While on leave from Yale at the U.S. Department of State as Special Representative for the Presidential Rule of Law Initiative, he conceived and led the China-U.S. legal cooperation initiative agreed to by Presidents Jiang Zemin and Bill Clinton at their 1997-1998 Summit meetings.  He accompanied President Clinton to China in 1998.  He founded The China Law Center in 1999.  In addition to his role as director of The China Law Center, Professor Gewirtz is the Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale Law School.

Jamie P. Horsley, Deputy Director
Jamie P. Horsley is Deputy Director of the China Law Center, and also holds the dual positions of Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law, at Yale Law School. Her academic subjects are the law of China and Chinese legal reform, and her project work revolves primary around issues of administrative law and regulatory reform, including promoting government transparency, public participation, improved administrative procedures and dispute resolution, and government accountability. Prior to joining Yale, she was a partner in the international law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Commercial Attaché in the U.S. Embassies in Beijing and Manila; Vice President of Motorola International, Inc. and Director of Government Relations for China for Motorola, Inc.; and a consultant to The Carter Center on village elections in China. She is the author, most recently, of "Public Participation in the People's Republic: Developing a More Participatory Governance Model in China," "China Adopts First Nationwide Open Government Information Regulations," and "China's Quest for Rule of Law Under One-Party Rule (forthcoming)" She has a B.A. from Stanford, an M.A. (Chinese Studies) from the University of Michigan, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a Diploma in Chinese Law from the University of East Asia.

Jeffrey Prescott, Deputy Director
Jeffrey Prescott is Deputy Director of the Center, and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School.  Before joining the Center, he was a visiting scholar at Fudan University Law School in Shanghai, on a fellowship from the Luce Foundation.  From 1998 to 2001, he was a staff attorney at the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights in New York.  He is a 1997 graduate of Yale Law School. 

Jonathan Hecht, Senior Research Scholar
Jonathan Hecht, Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School, is one of the country's leading authorities on contemporary Chinese law and particularly Chinese criminal law and procedure.  He founded The China Law Center with Professor Paul Gewirtz and served as its Deputy Director from 1999 to 2006.  Before coming to Yale, Mr. Hecht worked as a program officer in the Beijing office of the Ford Foundation and taught Chinese law at Harvard Law School.  He has been a consultant on Chinese legal reform projects for the United Nations, the U.S. State Department, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, and other organizations.  Mr. Hecht is a graduate of Stanford University, Harvard Law School, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Philip Chen, Senior Fellow
Philip Chen is Senior Fellow of the Center, based in Beijing.  Before joining the Center, he was an associate in the litigation practice of Sidley Austin LLP.  From 2001-2002, he was a law clerk to the Hon. Jose A. Cabranes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  He is a 2001 graduate of Yale Law School.

Katherine Wilhelm, Senior Fellow
Katherine Wilhelm is Senior Fellow of the Center, based in Beijing.  She previously practiced law at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.  Prior to becoming a lawyer, Ms. Wilhelm was a journalist and reported from China, Hong Kong and Vietnam for The Associated Press and Far Eastern Economic Review.  She is a graduate of Columbia Law School and holds master’s degrees in Chinese studies from Harvard University and in journalism from Columbia University. 

Timothy Webster, Senior Fellow
Tim Webster is Senior Fellow at the China Law Center, and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. His scholarship on East Asian and International Law appears most recently in the Berkeley, Michigan and Nordic Journals of International Law. He has lectured at conferences in Sweden, Norway, Germany, China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.  Previously, he clerked for Judge Joseph L. Tauro, of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts; practiced litigation in New York and Tokyo; and taught law and Asian studies at Berkeley and Cornell.  He earned his B.A. and M.A., simultaneously, at Yale; and his J.D. and LL.M., simultaneously, at Cornell.

Staff

Concetta S. Fusco, Senior Administrative Coordinator
Celia Sam, Administrative Coordinator
Katherine Pothin, Administrative Assistant

Fellows and Research Associates
Visiting Scholars

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