Paul Gewirtz

Paul Gewirtz '70 J.D. is the Potter Stewart Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale Law School and the Director of both the China Law Center and the Global Constitutionalism Project there. He teaches and writes in the fields of constitutional law, federal courts and procedure, antidiscrimination law, comparative law, law in contemporary China, U.S.-China relations, and law and literature. Among other works, he is the author of Law's Stories: The Case Law System in America and five volumes of readings on comparative constitutional law.

From 1997 to 1998 he was on leave from Yale Law School at the U.S. Department of State as Special Representative for the Presidential Rule of Law Initiative, where he was responsible for developing the U.S.-China Rule of Law Initiative that President Clinton and President Jiang launched at their October 1997 summit.

From 1996 to 2000 he was the U.S. Representative to the European Commission for Democracy through Law at the Council of Europe. Before joining the Yale faculty, he served as law clerk to Judge Marvin Frankel of the U.S. District Court in New York and as law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court of the United States. He practiced law at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and at the Center for Law and Social Policy in Washington. He is a member of the American Law Institute.

Professor Gewirtz holds a B.A. degree from Columbia University and his law degree (1970) from Yale University.

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