Jacques deLisle
Jacques deLisle is the Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law & Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also Directs the Center for the Study of Contemporary China. His research and teaching focus on contemporary Chinese law and politics, including: legal reform and its relationship to economic reform and political change in China, the international status of Taiwan and cross-Strait relations, China’s engagement with the international order, legal and political issues in Hong Kong under Chinese rule, and U.S.-China relations. He has served frequently as an expert witness on issues of P.R.C. law and government policies and is a consultant, lecturer and advisor to legal reform, development and education programs, primarily in China. He is also Director of the Asia Program at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
Avery Goldstein
Avery Goldstein is the David M. Knott Professor of Global Politics and International Relations in the Political Science Department, Inaugural Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, and Associate Director of the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on international relations, security studies, and Chinese politics. He is the author of Rising to the Challenge: China’s Grand Strategy and International Security (Stanford University Press, 2005), Deterrence and Security in the 21st Century: China, Britain, France and the Enduring Legacy of the Nuclear Revolution (Stanford University Press, 2000), and From Bandwagon to Balance of Power Politics: Structural Constraints and Politics in China, 1949-1978 (Stanford University Press, 1991). He is also a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute.
Neysun Mahboubi
Neysun A. Mahboubi is a Research Scholar of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a Lecturer in Law at Penn Law School. He hosts the CSCC Podcast, as well as the Law & Governance series co-sponsored by the Penn Program on Regulation. His primary research interests are in the areas of administrative law, comparative law, and Chinese law, and his current writing focuses on the development of modern Chinese administrative law. He has chaired the international committee of the ABA Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, advised both the Asia Foundation and the Administrative Conference of the United States on Chinese administrative procedure reform, and moderates the Comparative Administrative Law Listserv hosted by Yale Law School. He has taught at Princeton University’s School of Public & International Affairs, the University of Connecticut School of Law, and Yale Law School.
PROJECT TEAM
Yuanyuan Zeng
Yuanyuan Zeng is the Associate Director of Penn’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China. She joined Penn from Johns Hopkins University where she served as social sciences and area studies librarian at the Eisenhower Library from 2003-2012. From 2000-2001, she worked at the Asian Division of Library of Congress. She received her B.A. from Sichuan University, and her M.S. in Library& Information Science and her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Catholic University of America. In her spare time, she serves as an English/Mandarin conference interpreter for the U.S. Department of State.
Amanda Morrison
Amanda Morrison is the Project Fellow. She recently completed a Master’s in Global Affairs at Tsinghua University as a Schwarzman Scholar. She previously graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a BA in international relations focused on East Asia, authoritarian politics, gender, and media. Amanda has worked as a researcher at the U.S. Asia Law Institute and published articles in The Boston Globe and The Atlantic. She has worked in film development at Skydance Media and as a producer’s assistant in Los Angeles. Amanda is a multimedia producer currently directing a documentary film about Chinese feminist activism supported by the Carey Institute for Global Good.