Paul D. Gewirtz (born May 12, 1947) is the
Potter Stewart
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Professor of
Constitutional Law
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at
Yale Law School
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and the Director of the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale.
Biography
Gewirtz received his
Bachelor of Arts
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degree ''
summa cum laude'' from
Columbia University
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in 1967 and his
Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 1970.
After graduation, he worked as a
law clerk for the U.S. District Judge
Marvin E. Frankel from 1970 to 1971, and as a
law clerk for
United States Supreme Court
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Justice
Thurgood Marshall
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from 1971 to 1972. He was admitted to the bar in Washington, D.C., and was a lawyer at Wilmer Cutler & Pickering and then the Center for Law and Social Policy in Washington, D.C. He joined the faculty at Yale Law School in 1976. In 1994 he was appointed the Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law. He teaches and writes in various legal and policy fields, including constitutional law, U.S. foreign policy and law, U.S.-China relations, antidiscrimination law, federal courts, Chinese law, and law and literature.
Gewirtz played various roles in the administration of President Bill Clinton. He served as the U.S. representative at the European Commission for Democracy through Law of the
Council of Europe from 1996 to 2000, and was a consultant to the
Solicitor General of the United States
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in 1997. From 1997-1998, he was on leave of absence from Yale University to serve in President Clinton's administration as Special Representative for the
Presidential Rule of Law Initiative. In that post, he developed and led the U.S.-China initiative to cooperate in the legal field that President Clinton and China's President
Jiang Zemin
Jiang Zemin (17 August 1926 – 30 November 2022) was a Chinese politician who served as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1989 to 2002, as chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004, and as pr ...
agreed to at their 1997 and 1998 Summit meetings.
In 1996 Gewirtz was the founder of Yale Law School's
/www.law.yale.edu/centers-workshops/gruber-program-global-justice-and-womens-rights/global-constitutionalism-seminar Global Constitutionalism Seminar which brings Supreme Court judges from around the world to Yale each year, and he served as its Director until 2006. After returning to Yale from the Clinton Administration, Gewirtz founded Yale Law School's China Cente
in 1999, originally named The China Law Center and renamed the Paul Tsai China Center in 2014, and has been its Director since then. The Paul Tsai China Center does research and teaching, and also undertakes projects with Chinese counterparts to seek to advance China's legal reforms and contribute to the development of U.S.–China relations. In 2015 Gewirtz was named to Foreign Policy magazine's Pacific Power Index, a list of "50 people shaping the future of the U.S.-China relationship."
He was married to
Zoë Baird from 1986 to 2008, and he has two sons, Julian and Alec.
Selected publications
* "Remedies and Resistance", ''
Yale Law Journal'' Vol.92, No.4, March 1983, http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/1725/.
* "Choice in the Transition: School Desegregation and the Corrective Ideal", ''
Columbia Law Review
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'', Vol.86, No.4, May 1986, pp. 728–798, http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/1724/.
* "Aeschylus' Law", ''
Harvard Law Review'', Vol.101, No.5, March 1988, http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2710&context=fss_papers.
* ''Law's Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law'', co-editor with
Peter Brooks,
Yale University Press
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, Yale Universi ...
, 1996 ( ).
* "On '
I know it when I see it
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'", ''
Yale Law Journal'' Vol.105, pp1023–1047 (1996), http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/1706/.
* "Constitutional Law and New Technology,"
Social Policy, 1997, https://philpapers.org/rec/GEWCLA.
* "Privacy and Speech", 2001 ''
Supreme Court Review'', https://www.law.yale.edu/system/files/documents/pdf/CL-P.Gewirtz.Privacy_and_Speech.pdf
* Karl Llewellyn, ''The Case Law System in America'', Edited and with an Introduction,
University of Chicago Press
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, 1989 ().
* "A Lawyer's Death", ''
Harvard Law Review'', Vol.100, pp2053–2056, http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2711&context=fss_papers
* "Thurgood Marshall", ''
Yale Law Journal'' Vol.101, pp13–18 (1991) http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/1708/.
* "The Pragmatic Passion of Stephen Breyer," ''
Yale Law Journal'' Vol. 115, pp1675–1698 (2006), http://www.yalelawjournal.org/review/the-pragmatic-passion-of-stephen-breyer.
* "The U.S.-China Rule of Law Initiative", 11 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J. 603 (2003), http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmborj/vol11/iss2/5.
* "Xi, Mao, and China's Search for a Usable Past," ChinaFile, January 14, 2014, https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/xi-mao-and-chinas-search-usable-past.
* "Limits of Law in the South China Sea," Brookings Institution, May 2016, http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2016/05/06-limits-of-law-south-china-sea-gewirtz.
* "Can the U.S.-China Crisis Be Stabilized?," Brookings Institution, June 2019, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/06/26/can-the-u-s-china-crisis-be-stabilized.
* "No One Knows: How the Unknowable Consequences of COVID-19 Affect Thinking About Foreign Policy and U.S.-China Relations," Brookings Institution, June 2020, https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/no-one-knows-how-the-unknowable-consequences-of-covid-19-affect-thinking-about-foreign-policy-and-u-s-china-relations.
* "The Future of Trans-Atlantic Collaboration on China: What the EU-China Summit Showed," Brookings Institution, June 2020, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/06/26/the-future-of-trans-atlantic-collaboration-on-china-what-the-eu-china-summit-showed.
* "Working With Our (European) Allies," November 2020, https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Paul-Gewirtz.pdf, in The Future of US Policy Towards China, 2020, https://www.brookings.edu/multi-chapter-report/the-future-of-us-policy-toward-china and https://law.yale.edu/china-center/resources/us-china-relations.
* "A Roadmap for U.S.-Europe Cooperation on China," February 2021, https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/area/center/china/document/roadmap_for_us-eu_cooperation_on_china.pdf
See also
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References
External links
Gewirtz's Profile at Yale Law SchoolHomepage of the China Center
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1947 births
American legal scholars
Columbia College (New York) alumni
Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States
Living people
Scholars of constitutional law
Yale Law School alumni
Yale Law School faculty