Presidential Rule of Law Initiative, or US-China Rule of Law Initiative, was a project between the

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and

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

to expand bilateral cooperation in the field of law. In 1998, President

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and 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 pres ...

agreed to this program. The special representative for the U.S. side was

Paul Gewirtz Paul D. Gewirtz (born May 12, 1947) is the Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale Law School and the Director of the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale. Biography Gewirtz received his Bachelor of Arts degree '' summa cum laude'' from C ...

. One project of this initiative was the American Law Library program, which was to translate hundreds of books of American law into Chinese.

External links

* Paul Gewirtz
''The US-China Rule of Law Initiative'' (pdf file)
'' William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal'', Vol.11, pp. 603–621 (2003).
Introduction to the Presidential Rule of Law Initiative
China–United States relations R