Peking University School of Transnational Law
Senior Administration and Teaching Faculty, 2008-2011
Senior Administration
HAI Wen is Vice President of Peking University with responsibility for the Shenzhen Campus; Professor of Economics; and Deputy Director of the China Center for Economics Research. He studied at Peking University and he holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis. He has also taught at the California State University, the University of California at Davis, the Colorado State University, and the Australian National University. He is a scholar of international economics and development economics, and he is the author of International Trade – Theory, Policy, and Empirical Issues. He is responsible for, several years ago, creating on the Shenzhen campus an innovative, English-language program of graduate business education. He conceived the idea of having Peking University launch China’s first true J.D. program, and he recruited Professor Lehman to lead it.
Jeffrey LEHMAN is Chancellor and Founding Dean of the Peking University School of Transnational Law; Professor of Law and Former President of Cornell University; and President of the Institute for China-U.S. Law & Policy Studies. He studied at Cornell University and the University of Michigan Institute of Public Policy Studies, and he holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School. He has served as Dean of the University of Michigan Law School, Law Clerk to Chief Judge Frank Coffin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, and President of the American Law Deans Association. He has also taught at the Yale Law School, l’Université de Paris II, and Tsinghua University. He is a scholar of tax law and public benefits law, and he is the author of An Optimistic Heart, and Corporate Income Taxation.
Stephen YANDLE is Associate Dean of the Peking University School of Transnational Law. He holds a bachelors degree and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia. He has served as Assistant Dean at the University of Virginia, as Associate Dean at the Northwestern University Law School, as Associate Dean of the Yale Law School, as Deputy Consultant on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar of the American Bar Association, and as Vice President for Global Law School Programs at LexisNexis. He has also served as Chairperson of the Section on Administration of Law Schools of the Association of American Law Schools (“AALS”), President of the National Association for Law Placement, and member of the AALS Committee on Legal Education Exchange with China. At the Yale Law School he taught about diversity in higher education.
Liya RONG is Professor of Law and Assistant Dean at the Peking University School of Transnational Law. She studied at the China University of Political Sciences and Law, the Harvard Law School, and the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and she holds an S.J.D. degree from the University of Michigan Law School. She has served as Publisher of the Harvard China Review. She has also taught courses at the University of Michigan Law School, Peking University, the Beijing National Accounting Institute, and Tsinghua University. She is a scholar of corporate tax law and international tax law, and she is the author of Tax Competition in Developed and Developing Countries: The Case of China.
XU Hua is Chief of Staff at the Peking University School of Transnational Law. She studied at the China University of Geosciences, and holds a Juris Master degree from the Peking University Law School.
Research-Teaching Faculty
Kif AUGUSTINE-ADAMS is Visiting Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2009-10), and Charles E. Jones Professor of Law and Associate Dean of the J. Reuben Clark Law School of Brigham Young University. She studied at Brigham Young University, and she holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Harvard Law School. She is a scholar of citizenship, immigration, and gender, and she is the author of “Constructing Mexico.”
Yifat BITTON is Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2009-10), and Associate Professor at Shaarey Mishpat College of Law. She holds three law degrees, including a Ph.D., from Hebrew University, and an LL.M. degree from the Yale Law School. She has taught at Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, Haifa University, and the Interdisciplinary Center School of Law, and she has been a visiting researcher at the Harvard Law School. She is a scholar of torts, law and gender, and antidiscrimination law, and she is a co-editor of Readings in Law, Gender and Feminism.
David H. BLANKFEIN-TABACHNICK is Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law. He is a 2008 graduate of the Yale Law School and holds a Ph.D. in legal and political philosophy from the University of Virginia. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Yale Law School where he studied with Hon. Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and has been honored by the University of Virginia for the quality of his teaching. In 2006, he hosted the Virginia Law Review symposium Contemporary Political Theory and the Private Law. A scholar of private ordering, legal and political theory, and tax policy, his work has appeared in the Virginia Law Review, the George Washington Law Review, The Cambridge University Press journal, Social Philosophy and Policy.
Howard BROMBERG is Visiting Professor of Law and Director of the Legal Practice Program at the Peking University School of Transnational Law, and Clinical Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He studied at Harvard College and Stanford Law School, and he holds a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. Professor Bromberg has served as Associate Director of the First-Year Lawyering Program at Harvard Law School and as Assistant Dean of Clinical and Professional Skills Programs at the Ave Maria School of Law. He has also taught at the University of Chicago Law School and the Stanford Law School. He is a scholar of property law and American legal history.
Anne BURR is Visiting Assistant Professor of Law in the Legal Practice Program at the Peking University School of Transnational Law, and Director of Legal Writing at the Wayne State University School of Law. She studied at the Oakland University and the Wayne State University graduate school, and she holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Wayne State University School of Law. She has served as a Law Clerk in the Federal District Court, the Federal Bankruptcy Court, and the Michigan Court of Appeals. An expert in dispute resolution and corporate law, she has been a partner in the law firm of Dykema Gossett, LLC, senior counsel to Allied Domecq, PLC, and she has taught research, writing, and advocacy at the Detroit College of Law and the Ave Maria School of Law.
Kenneth DAU-SCHMIDT is Visiting Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2009-10), and Willard and Margaret Carr Professor of Labor and Employment Law at the Maurer School of Law, at Indiana University. He studied at the University of Wisconsin, and he holds both a Juris Doctor degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He has won many awards for his teaching, and he has taught at Christian-Albrechts-Universität and Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Germany, and at Université de Paris Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) in France. He is a scholar of labor and employment law, and the economic analysis of legal problems, and he is the author of Labor Law in the Contemporary Workplace.
Kathryn DAY is Visiting Assistant Professor of Law in the Legal Practice Program at the Peking University School of Transnational Law, and Lecturer in Legal Writing at the Wayne State University School of Law. She studied at the University of Michigan, and she holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Northwestern University School of Law. She has served as a Law Clerk in Appellate Courts of the State of Illinois, has served as the president of Lawquest, Inc., and has taught research, writing, and advocacy at the Ave Maria School of Law.
Linda ELLIOTT is Visiting Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2009-10). She studied at Kalamazoo College, and she holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School and an LL.M. in Advocacy from the Georgetown University Law Center. She has served as a Law Clerk in the Federal District Court for the Western District of Michigan and in the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, as an attorney in the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, and as Deputy Circuit Executive and as Special Counsel to the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She has taught at Georgetown University and New York University. She is a scholar of appellate decisionmaking and is the co-author of Federal Courts -- Standards of Review.
Jason EYSTER is Visiting Assistant Professor of Law in the Legal Practice Program at the Peking University School of Transnational Law. He studied at Princeton University and he holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Fordham Law School, where he served as Assistant Editor of the Journal Art and the Law. An expert in immigration law and arts law, he has worked for Actor’s Equity Association and for Ars Musica, served as Senior Editor of the Immigration and Nationality Law Handbook, served as Executive Director of the Princeton in Asia Foundation and for the University of Michigan’s Southeast Asia Business Program. He has also been a partner in an immigration law firm, and he has taught legal research and writing and clinical law at the Ave Maria School of Law.
Mary FAN is Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2010-11), and Assistant Professor of Law at the American University Washington College of Law. She studied at the University of Arizona and the University of Cambridge, and she holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Yale Law School. She has served as Law Clerk to Judge John Noonan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California, and Associate Legal Officer to Judge O-Gon Kwon of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. She is a scholar of American and international criminal law, and she is the co-author of International Criminal Law: Cases and Commentary.
Jack GOLDSMITH is Visiting Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (2010-11), and Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. He studied at Washington and Lee University and Oxford University and holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Yale Law School. He has served as Law Clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, and as Assistant Attorney General of the United States (Office of Legal Counsel). He has also taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Chicago. He is a scholar of international law, and he is the author of The Terror Presidency.
Whitmore GRAY is Visiting Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan Law School. He studied at Principia College and holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School and an LLD from Adrian College. He has served as a consultant on law reform in Indonesia, Cambodia, and Argentina and has been a visiting scholar at Tokyo University. He has also taught at Fordham University, Jilin University and the Academy Summer Program. He is a scholar of contract law, commercial law, and comparative legal systems, and he translated into English the Russian Civil Code and the Chinese Civil Law Principles Civil Code.
Thomas KAUPER is Visiting Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2008-09), and Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan Law School. He holds a bachelors degree and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School. He has served as Law Clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, and as Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the United States, and as Assistant Attorney General of the United States (Antitrust Division). He has also taught at the Harvard Law School. He is a scholar of property and antitrust law, and he is the author of Property: An Introduction to the Concept and the Institution.
Michael KLAUSNER is Visiting Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2010-11), and Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law at Stanford University. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania and the Yale University Graduate School and holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Yale Law School. He has served as Law Clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, a White House Fellow, and as an attorney with the transnational law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He has also taught at New York University Law School. He is a scholar of corporate law and corporate governance, and he is the author of “Outside Director Liability,” and “Corporations, Corporate Law, and Networks of Contracts.”
Kevin KORDANA is Visiting Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2009-10), and Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School. He studied at Yale College and holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Yale Law School. He has served as Law Clerk to Chief Judge Richard Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He has also taught at the University of Southern California and the George Washington University Law School. He is a scholar of contracts, corporations, nonprofit organizations, and bankruptcy law, and he is the author of “Distributive Justice and Contractual Associations.”
Peter MALANCZUK is C.V. Starr Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law. He studied at the University of Göttingen, the University of München, and the University of Heidelberg, and he holds a Doctor of Law from the University of Gliessen. Professor Malanczuk has served as the Dean of the City University of Hong Kong School of Law and as the Department Head of International Law at the University of Amsterdam and the Erasmus University. He has also taught at the University of Michigan, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Addis Ababa, Peking University, Tsinghua University, and the University of Hong Kong. He is a scholar of international law and arbitration law, and he is the author of Akehurst’s Modern Introduction to International Law.
Charles OGLETREE is Visiting Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2009-10) and is the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he is also the Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice. He has earned degrees from Stanford University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He served as Deputy Director of the District of Columbia Public Defender Service, Trustee of Stanford University, and Chairman of the Board of the University of the District of Columbia. He has received many national honors and awards, including the Living Legends Award and the National Spirit Award, and holds eight honorary doctorates. He is a scholar of comparative criminal justice systems, public defender systems, and race and criminal justice, and is the author of several important books including All Deliberate Speed, When Law Fails, and the soon to be released, The Road to Abolition?
Randall PEERENBOOM is Visiting Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2008-09), Professor of Law at La Trobe University in Australia, Associate Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, and Director of the Oxford Foundation for Law, Justice and Society China Rule of Law Programme. He studied at the University of Wisconsin and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii and a Juris Doctor degree from Columbia University. He has served as an advisor to the Asia Development Bank and the Ford Foundation. He has also taught at the UCLA Law School. He is a scholar of legal theory, comparative law, law and development, and international business transactions. He is the author of China Modernizes and China's Long March toward Rule of Law.
Katharina PISTOR is Visiting Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (2010-11), and Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at the Columbia Law School. She studied at the University of Freiburg, the University of London, and Harvard University and holds a Doctorate of Jurisprudence from the University of Munich. She has served on the editorial board of European Business Organization Law, and she has taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Public Policy at Harvard University. She is a scholar of comparative law, corporate law and governance, and European law, and she is the co-author of Law and Capitalism.
Milton REGAN is Visiting Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2010-11), and Professor of Law at Georgetown University, where he is Co-Director of the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession. He studied at the University of Houston and the University of California Los Angeles and holds a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University. He has served as Law Clerk to Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, and as an attorney with the transnational law firm of Davis, Polk & Wardwell. He is a scholar of legal ethics, corporations, and the legal profession, and he is the author of Legal Ethics and Corporate Practice.
Mark ROSENBAUM is Visiting Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2009-10), and Legal Director of the ACLU of Southern California. He studied at the University of Michigan and holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Harvard Law School. He has taught at Duke, Harvard, Loyola, UCLA, the University of Michigan, and the University of Southern California. He has argued three times before the United States Supreme Court, and he has appeared frequently before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the California Supreme Court. His areas of expertise include race, gender, poverty and homelessness, education, voting rights, workers' rights, immigrants' rights, the First Amendment and criminal trials. He has received numerous awards and commendations, is regularly selected as one of the most influential lawyers in California, and recently was named California Attorney of the Year in the area of civil rights.
Barry SLUTSKY is C.V. Starr Distinguished Professor in Residence at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2009-10). He holds bachelor’s degrees in law and in economics, as well as a Ph.D. in law, from the University of British Columbia, and he also studied at the London School of Ecnomoics and Politics. Professor Slutsky has been a member of the faculty at the University of British Columbia, and he received the William Paul McClure Kennedy Memorial Award as Outstanding Law Teacher in Canada. He has also taught at the University of New South Wales, the City University of Hong Kong. He is a scholar of company law and tort law, and he is the editor of Company Law in Hong Kong: Practice and Procedure.
Paul STEPHAN is Visiting Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2010-11), and John C. Jeffries, Jr., Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. He holds two degrees from Yale University and he holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia. He has served as Law Clerk to Judge Levin Campbell of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell. He has also taught at l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Melbourne University, Sydney University, l’Universite de Lausanne, Universität Wien, and l’Université de Paris I et II. He is a scholar of international law, international business transactions, tax law, and post-Soviet law, and he is the author of The Limits of Leviathan: Contract Theory and the Enforcement of International Law.
Matthew STEPHENSON is Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2009-10) and Assistant Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. He holds a bachelors degree, a Ph.D. in political science, and a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard University. He has served as Law Clerk to Senior Judge Stephen Williams of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, as a consultant to the World Bank, and as Special Rapporteur for the Commission on the Legal Empowerment of the Poor. He is a scholar of he application of positive political theory to public law, particularly in the areas of administrative procedure, judicial institutions, and separation of powers, and he is the author of “Statutory Interpretation by Administrative Agencies.”
Frank WU is Visiting Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law, and Professor of Law at the Howard University School of Law. He studied at the Johns Hopkins University, and he holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan. He has served as the Dean of the Wayne State University School of Law, a law clerk in the Federal District Court, and as a trustee of Gallaudet University, and he is a member of the Committee of 100. He has also taught at the University of Maryland, the University of Michigan, and Columbia University. He is a scholar of professional responsibility and discrimination law, and he is the author of Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White.
Thomas WEIDENBACH is Visiting Lecturer in the Legal Practice Program at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2008-09). He studied at the University of Chicago and at Oxford University, and he holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has practiced law in California, and he has served as an advisor to several private law firms and one state-owned enterprise in China. He has also taught at the Washtenaw Community College, the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and the China University of Politics and Law.
Adjunct Faculty
Gary BORN is Adjunct Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2010-11), and a partner in the transnational law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP. He studied at Haverford College, and he holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has served as Law Clerk to U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Henry Friendly and U.S. Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist, and as member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. He has also taught law at the St. Gallen University, Stanford University, University College London, University of Arizona, Georgetown University, and the University of Virginia. He is widely regarded as one of the world's pre-eminent authorities and practitioners in the fields of international arbitration and international litigation, and he is the author of several leading treatises, including International Commercial Arbitration (3rd ed. Kluwer) and International Civil Litigation in United States Courts (4th ed. Aspen).
Luca DELL’ANESE is Adjunct Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2009-10) and an associate with the transnational law firm of Ropes & Gray. He studied at the Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi and Harvard University, and he holds a J.D. degree from the Università degli Studi di Milano–Bicocca and an S.J.D. degree from the University of Michigan. He has served as manager of the European Center of Tax Studies and Electronic Commerce in Milan, Italy. His areas of expertise include tax law, international tax law, cross-border transactions, and financial products.
Harry EDWARDS is C.V. Starr Distinguished Jurist in Residence at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2009-10) and Senior Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He studied at Cornell University and he holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School. He has served on the D.C. Circuit since 1980, and as Chief Judge from 1994 to 2001. He has held tenured positions at Harvard University and the University of Michigan, and he has also taught at Duke University, Georgetown University, New York University, and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a scholar of labor law, legal education, and appellate decisionmaking and is the co-author of Federal Courts -- Standards of Review and four other books.
Steven KARGMAN is Adjunct Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2009-10), and President of Kargman Associates, an international restructuring advisory firm. He studied at Swarthmore College and holds a Juris Doctor degree from the Yale Law School. He has served as a Law Clerk for Judge Gilbert Merritt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, as Lead Attorney for the Export-Import Bank of the United States, as General Counsel of the New York State Financial Control Board, and as an attorney with the transnational law firm of Debevoise and Plimpton. He has served as a member of the U.S. Delegation to the UNCITRAL Working Group on Insolvency Law, and he has also taught at the Washington College of Law of American University. He is an expert on international debt restructuring and international insolvency, and he is the author of “Solving the Insolvency Puzzle” concerning China’s new insolvency law.
David PLANT is Adjunct Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2009-10). He holds a bachelors degree and a Juris Doctor degree from Cornell University. He has served as Managing Partner of the transnational law firm of Fish & Neave, as a Special Master in United States district courts, and as a mediator or arbitrator in more than 325 domestic and international disputes. He has also taught at the Cornell Law School, the Franklin Pierce Law Center, the University of Melbourne, and Hong Kong University. He is an expert on negotiation, mediation, and alternative dispute resolution.
Michael ROSS is Adjunct Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2009-10). He holds a bachelors degree and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia. He has served as a partner in the transnational law firm of Latham & Watkins and as Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of the Safeway Corporation. He has taught for many years at the University of California Berkeley Law School and at the University of Virginia Law School. His areas of expertise include mergers and acquisitions, and legal ethics.
James Hagy is Adjunct Professor of Law at the Peking University School of Transnational Law (in 2009-10). He writes and speaks to business audiences on corporate real estate strategies and international business. During a 28 year career with Jones Day, he formed and led the firm's Corporate Real Estate Services practice worldwide. He has advised a broad range of Fortune 500 companies in major national and international transactions. His honors include appointment to the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and listing as one of the World's Leading Real Estate Lawyers (Euromoney). He is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University where he obtained his Juris Doctor and his bachelor’s degree. He has been a magician for more than 40 years and writes and speaks regularly on the history and theory of performance magic, including a recent keynote lecture at The British Library (London).