Professor Dr. Paul Gewirtz

Biography

Paul Gewirtz is the Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale Law School and the Director of Yale’s Paul Tsai China Center. His areas of expertise include constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, U.S. foreign policy law, U.S.-China relations, and Chinese law. Gewirtz has played a pivotal role in the establishment of the Global Constitutionalism Seminar, which engages leading judges from around the world. In 1997 and 1998, he served as the Special Representative for the Presidential Rule of Law Initiative during the Clinton administration, where he developed a U.S.-China collaboration in the legal field. He founded the China Law Center at Yale in 1999 to advance legal reforms in China and foster U.S.-China relations. With a B.A. summa cum laude from Columbia University and a J.D. from Yale Law School, Gewirtz has also practiced law in Washington, D.C., and has contributed extensively to scholarly discussions surrounding the intersection of law and international relations. He continues to publish and lecture on important topics related to globalization and the rule of law.

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